Re: Screensharing - Application restricting whole screen

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Mathieu Hofman <Mathieu.Hofman@citrix.com>
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> As Martin suggested, why couldn’t the enterprise admin not tell the UA
> directly not to do whole screen sharing, without having to rely on the good
> will of the application to carry that instruction?
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That's certainly not crazy, but it now requires either (a) a standard way
to do that
or (b) frobs for each browser. By contrast, the enterprise admin already
has a
contract with their corporate video provider.

-Ekr


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> *From:* Eric Rescorla [mailto:ekr@rtfm.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2015 16:32
> *To:* Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com>
> *Cc:* Hutton, Andrew <andrew.hutton@unify.com>; Martin Thomson <
> martin.thomson@gmail.com>; Media Capture TF <public-media-capture@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Screensharing - Application restricting whole screen
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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com>
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> On 11/24/15 3:39 AM, Hutton, Andrew wrote:
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> On: 24 November 2015 00:42 Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [mailto:jib@mozilla.com]
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> Why does a well-behaved application need means to protect the user from
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> This is about protecting the users from themselves many enterprise
> collaboration applications have the option for the enterprise admin to
> create a policy such that users cannot share the whole screen to prevent
> the accidental leaking of information. I believe this is a commonly applied
> enterprise policy.
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> If the policy limits them to the well-behaved application only, then
> where's the harm? If not, then where's the protection?
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> Huh? The idea here is that Firefox and the application can in principle
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> whole screen, but the enterprise admin thinks that's not safe and so he
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> application to tell Firefox never to do so. This avoids the user
> accidentally selecting
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> the whole screen.
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> -Ekr
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