Re: "Enclosed shops" Re: HTML5 and DRM - A Middle Path?

Mark Watson:
>> You probably meant to write this:
>>
>> Enclosed shops which are operated in the homes of the customers and
>> might be watching and listening to them on behalf of companies and/or
>> secret agencies (again: Google Widevine is promoting "silent monitoring").
> 
> You've mentioned this and other similar things a few times and I've
> explained how the EME approach is an improvement for users in this
> respect.
> 
> If a browser integrates a specific CDM, what makes you think that they
> will pay less attention to user security and privacy with respect to
> that part of the browser compared to the attention they pay to the
> rest of the browser ?

That is a question which I consider to be irrelevant in this context.
Especially while the U.S. government claims the right to issue "National
Security Letters" with gag orders and is using that alleged right for
criminal purposes against the world population.

The W3C should not in any way participate in this, stop the work on EME
and publicly denounce DRM.

Would Netflix inform the public or shut down its operations when it
receives a secret order to participate in surveillance by using a
backdoor contained in a CDM which is already installed on a users
computer? (After the shutdown of lavabit.com this unfortunately is not a
rhetorical question.)

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 16 August 2013 16:53:18 UTC