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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15592 --- Comment #4 from Maarten Billemont <lhunath@lyndir.com> 2012-01-19 08:13:42 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > You plug a smart card reader into your tablet. Android and iOS are perfectly > > capable of using add-on hardware. > > Users are just going to love purchasing and lugging around dongles that > elegantly hang from their tablets. > > > If I may assume that what you are saying is that most non-Java 6 environments > > don't have smartcard readers anyway: Java is sometimes not installed on > > desktops either. > > My point is that hardware tokens are bad for the Web, because if they became > widespread, they'd limit the possibilities of new classes of browsing devices > to break into the market. If hardware tokens became widespread supported, that would only enable users and improve security profoundly for those applications that choose to support it. Device vendors aren't going to feel threatened by a smartcard API. If anything, it will herald a new (old) class of devices that have a smartcard reader built-in. Those that choose not to include such a reader need only support USB. I don't see how any of this could lead to limitations on devices; on the contrary. -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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