[anonymous-panda]

Security and utility are in opposing balances often. The safest possible computer is one buried far underground without any cables in a faraday cage. Not very useful.

> We’re not inserting the security community into that loop and slowing things down just so people can download random programs onto their computers and run them at random. That’s just a stupid thing to do, there’s no way to make it safe, and there never will be.

Setting aside JavaScript, you can see this today with cloud computers which have largely displaced private clouds. These run untrusted code on shared computers. Fundamentally that’s what they’re doing because that’s what you need for economies of scale, durability, availability, etc. So figuring out a way to run untrusted code on another machine safely is fundamentally a desirable goal. That’s why people are trying to do homomorphic encryption - so that the “safely” part can go both ways and both the HW owner and the “untrusted” SW don’t need to trust each other to execute said code.