- From: Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:32:03 +0200
- To: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
On 2013/07/12 19:14, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > Karl Dubost: >> How much I dislike both >> * DRM/EME >> * The spying going on citizens >> >> I would like we avoid to mix things which are slightly orthogonal for >> their application domains. Yes closed softwares are an opportunity >> for abusing the trust of users, but that is intrinsically true of all >> closed softwares for ANY W3C or other standards organizations >> specifications. > > EME is first time that the W3C knowingly pushes the development of a > "standard" which is intended to be used as an interface for closed > source executables. And these DRM-executables have the additional > property that in many jurisdictions it is *illegal* to find out what > those executables are doing. These are ideal conditions for > surveillance-malware. > > According to the recent reports Microsoft is not only closely and > secretly collaborating with the NSA but also lied about that to the > world population. > > I do think that this all taken together is of first-order significance > for the further treatment of EME both within and outside the W3C. > > This substantiates these issues which have been created months ago (I > think they are duplicates): > > EME results in a loss of control over security and privacy. > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20965 > > EME design trivializes the demanded loss of control of security and > privacy demanded. > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20966 Very well said Andreas. I do think that your comment is pertinent and in context with the whole NSA spying on the world and Microsoft (and others) helping by abusing their users. The last thing we need is the W3C encouraging technologies that may enable further abuse. -- Emmanuel Revah http://manurevah.com
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