Re: Proposal: Prefer secure origins for powerful new web platform features from Chris Palmer on 2014-08-22 (public-webappsec@w3.org from August 2014)

From: Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:07:11 -0700
To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
Cc: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>, "Eduardo' Vela" <evn@google.com>, Jim Manico <jim.manico@owasp.org>, "public-webappsec@w3.org" <public-webappsec@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAOuvq22n0gjif=UdhpcsiiiUcN0R7-mVJgucuqFy2M8QsWVy5w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:

> Anyway, I totally agree a few dollars a year is well worth it to avoid
> a user dialog like this, if that was the choice.  What, though, if the
> alternative was not just a few dollars but millions ? What if the
> alternative is using a plugin ?

Millions as a percentage of how much revenue? If a billion-dollar
business model depends on people continuing to trust the platform,
then millions (a tenth of a percent) is perhaps not out of line.

Received on Friday, 22 August 2014 00:07:38 UTC