- From: cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 02:10:41 -0500
- To: public-media-capture@w3.org
On 28/11/2013 1:37 AM, Adam Bergkvist wrote: > On 2013-11-27 18:47, Stefan Håkansson LK wrote: >> On 27/11/13 18:30, Martin Thomson wrote: >>> On 27 November 2013 06:40, Jim Barnett <Jim.Barnett@genesyslab.com> >>> wrote: >>>> I am opposed to this. I think that it would complicate app >>>> development and >>>> make the user experience worse. >>> >>> I am in favour of this (modulo a persistent grant of permissions). >> >> I'm in favor too. This is about privacy, and I want to be careful. > > I'm also in favor of this (for reasons mentioned in a bunch of other > mails). I don't like the fact that we are exerting so much effort to protect against theoretical fingerprinting risks [1] when we have plenty of *real* troubleshooting problems that are not being tackled, and in fact will only get worse as a result of this proposal. For that reason, I am against this proposal at this time. I think that we should revisit this proposal once error reporting has improved. I am not aware of anything that would prevent us from implementing it at a later time. [1] Security is a bottomless pit. There will always be more security issues and they will always come at the cost of usability. For that reason, we need to evaluate the cost/benefit of each issue, and only implement it if we gain more than we lose. It's hard for me to evaluate the cost/benefit at this time because error reporting is in such an unbearable state (making it hard to give up what little error reporting we have). Gili
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