CDMs and the NSA Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

Mark Watson:
> technicality, but nevertheless. Secondly, because there are no technical
> issues stopping any system from shipping a closed source CDM

Security is a technical issue. There are people who do not want to risk
running software on their personal computers which might have been
implemented by or on behalf of the NSA or similar institutions.

The W3C should not promote interfaces to such software.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 28 June 2013 15:58:06 UTC