Re: ISSUE-28: [Policy] Requirement for NO security prompting [Security Policy Framework — General]

I was suggesting the extreme approach for *security* dialogs, since it  
seems to be a security not-best-practice, and taking an extreme point  
might help with making a decision by eliciting responses...

Given the arguments in the position papers, I'm wondering why we  
shouldn't say something in DAP about this.

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:54 PM, ext Marcin Hanclik wrote:

>>> Add policy Requirement: User agents MUST NOT present modal dialogs  
>>> to prompt users for security decisions no user prompting for  
>>> security decisions
> I am not sure whether we should explicitly prohibit modal dialogs.  
> This may be vendor-dependent and could be a differentiator.
>
>>> Add policy Requirements: Users SHOULD have control over general  
>>> configuration of security decisions
> I assume the comments raised for geolocation API [1] are also valid  
> here, i.e. this one issue.
> If solved in one WG, it should propagate to the other.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcin
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2009Aug/0006.html
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> Subject: ISSUE-28: [Policy] Requirement for NO security prompting   
> [Security Policy Framework — General]
>
> ISSUE-28: [Policy] Requirement for NO security prompting  [Security  
> Policy Framework — General]
>
> http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/track/issues/28
>
> Raised by: Frederick Hirsch
> On product: Security Policy Framework — General
>
> A number of workshop position papers noted that prompting the user  
> for permission when making security decisions can be harmful,  
> especially when repeated often.
>
> Do we have a requirement for no user security prompting, or perhaps  
> only allow user-configuration and then no prompting?
>
> Proposal: Add policy Requirement: User agents MUST NOT present modal  
> dialogs to prompt users for security decisions no user prompting for  
> security decisions
> Add policy Requirements: Users SHOULD have control over general  
> configuration of security decisions
>
> Rationale is in 2.1 of the OMTP position paper [1], the Mozilla  
> position paper [2], Johnson/Bellovin [3]
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/papers/OMTP_Security_Position_Paper.pdf
>
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/papers/mozilla.html
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> [3] http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/papers/security_assurance_webapi.pdf
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