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Oh shit.
Excel adds JavaScript support.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8hubri/excel_adds_javascript_support/
As if macro viruses weren't enough now we can worry about spreadsheets having crypto-mining malware.
This is not the future I signed up for.
I'm pretty sure that if there were a way to effectively crypto-mine in Excel, it would have already happened. JavaScript is Just Another Scripting Language at this point.
@suetanvil Perhaps, but before you were limited to what Excel supported with VBA. Having a full-on JavaScript engine in there makes me wonder what they could do.
It'll be interesting to see what plays out, but I'm pessimistic that it won't add a new vector for misuse.
