diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index f5e1293992b32..849efa274ced6 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -358,3 +358,4 @@ a license to everyone to use it as detailed in LICENSE.)
 * Alexander Frank Lehmann <alexander.frank.lehmann@compusoftgroup.com> (copyright owned by Compusoft Group)
 * Tommy Nguyen <tn0502@gmail.com>
 * Benjamin S. Rodgers <acdimalev@gmail.com>
+* Paul Shapiro <paul@mymonero.com>
diff --git a/src/library_fs.js b/src/library_fs.js
index e5cf6a1aab0e8..feb7758561dc5 100644
--- a/src/library_fs.js
+++ b/src/library_fs.js
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ mergeInto(LibraryManager.library, {
 #endif // ENVIRONMENT_MAY_BE_NODE
       } else {
         // default for ES5 platforms
-        random_device = function() { return (Math.random()*256)|0; };
+        random_device = function() { abort("random_device"); /*Math.random() is not safe for random number generation, so this fallback random_device implementation aborts... see kripken/emscripten/pull/7096 */ };
       }
       FS.createDevice('/dev', 'random', random_device);
       FS.createDevice('/dev', 'urandom', random_device);