- From: Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:56:32 +0200
- To: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
On 2013/06/07 15:26, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: [...] > It is now known that the U.S. government is involved in large-scale > surveillance directed against the world population (PRISM). It is also > widely assumed that this surveillance is supported by two of the three > companies which are proposing EME (Google and Microsoft). [...] > surveillance malware will be added on > behalf of the U.S. government. The persons involved likely would be > gagged by a gag order. > > It is unacceptable for an Open Standards body to take part in this by > endorsing EME. There aren't many replies to this thread so I will add a "+1" and a remark, Even on a less paranoid level I am persuaded that CDMs will be used to compromise web user's computers at least involuntarily, just like it is the case with built-in Root CAs that authenticate SSL certificates (security flaw that helps things like PRISM). CDMs will most likey be deployed in the same manner (with hardware built-in modules as a bonus) so that most users will be trusting a vast array of organisations they've never heard of. I'm not aware of any other W3C specification that relies on the user trusting 3rd parties for functionality. The worst part is that EME's goal isn't to solve any technical problems to make the web better, it is a technical problem that attempts to solve social and legal concerns. -- Emmanuel Revah http://manurevah.com
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