Re: "Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages" from Jeff Jaffe on 2013-07-11 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from July 2013)

From: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:19:57 -0400
To: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
CC: "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
Message-ID: <51DF055D.7000007@w3.org>

On 7/11/2013 2:59 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> EME- and DRM proponent Microsoft closely collaborating with the NSA
> against Microsoft's users, *again*:
>
> Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
> Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Spencer Ackerman and
> Dominic Rushe 
> Thursday 11 July 2013
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
>
> It has been acknowledged by EME proponents that the source code of DRMs
> will almost certainly not be made available to users. An endorsement of
> EME by the W3C therefore would be equivalent to direct support for the NSA.
>
> Cheers,

I don't understand why a closed implementation of an API for encrypted 
media helps the NSA get metadata about users emails and phone calls.

> Andreas
>

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