Pervasive Monitoring and Secure Origins breakout session

During TPAC, we had a breakout session to discuss a series of proposals regarding restricting sensitive APIs to secure or authenticated origins and other measures we could take to address the problem of pervasive monitoring [1].

I've cleaned up the minutes for your review:
	http://www.w3.org/2014/10/29-permon-minutes.html

In general, I heard:

* consensus that moving all traffic to TLS (or similar) in order to increase integrity is a goal
* interest in transition processes -- for moving features to HTTPS-only and for getting the industry as a whole (including hardware) to TLS
* possibilities for using DNSSEC for more secure browsing, with issues of performance and middleboxes

I would welcome additional takeaways that others in attendance had, or any additional conclusions since. I know this to be a topic of discussion in at least the following working groups:

* HTML/EME
* WebCrypto
* Geolocation
* WebAppSec
* WebRTC/Media Capture
* TAG

As Giri mentioned during the breakout, Geolocation is having an open call for discussion of this topic, with some active discussion on this thread:
	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2014Nov/0007.html

Thanks all for your participation at TPAC and for the broad discussion and effort to improve security on the Web.

Nick

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258

Received on Friday, 7 November 2014 22:57:59 UTC