RE: DAP and security (was: Rename "File API" to "FileReader API"?)

My comments:

 

From: rocallahan@gmail.com [mailto:rocallahan@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert O'Callahan
Sent: 19 November 2009 10:10
To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Cc: Marcin Hanclik; Jonas Sicking; David Rogers; Maciej Stachowiak; Robin Berjon; public-device-apis@w3.org; public-webapps WG
Subject: Re: DAP and security (was: Rename "File API" to "FileReader API"?)

 

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> wrote:

 Le jeudi 19 novembre 2009 à 22:39 +1300, Robert O'Callahan a écrit :

 > There are usually no third parties to delegate to.

 That’s true to a certain extent, but a reason for that might well be
 that the Web platform hasn’t left enough room for third parties in that
 realm.

 One could very well imagine that by allowing a certain level of
 abstraction in security concerns, we would allow businesses to offer
 guarantees against data-loss or data-thief if the user install a
 third-party extension that would check Web sites based on a number of
 their security aspects.


Businesses could offer that today, as a Firefox extension for example. There are actually a lot of "security toolbar" extensions, but they tend to offer advice rather than enforcement and they don't offer any guarantees. (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/phishing/chi-security-toolbar.pdf has an interesting analysis (albeit slightly dated).)


 

[DAVID] This is in effect an insurance policy, I’m sure there will be organisations willing to step-up.

 


Rob
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