Re: [w3c/payment-request] Editorial: describe security mitigations #675 (#683)

marcoscaceres commented on this pull request.



> +        </h2>
+        <p>
+          This specification includes a number of mechanisms to enhance the
+          security of the API:
+        </p>
+        <ul data-link-for="PaymentRequest">
+          <li>Explicit user action is required to call <a>PaymentRquest</a>'s
+          <a>show()</a> method. This reduces content's ability to unexpectedly
+          cause a request for payment to be displayed to the end-user.
+          </li>
+          <li>Interfaces are <a data-cite=
+          "WEBIDL#dfn-available-only-in-secure-contexts">available only in a
+          secure context</a>, to reduce the possibly that credentials will be
+          acquired and transferrer through insecure communication protocols.
+          </li>
+          <li>A <a>top-level browsing context</a> need to explicitly grant an

I think we might have a small security problems in the HTML Spec... it says to no expose the `PaymentRequest` interface, but doesn't say anything about the event interface, `PaymentResponse`, etc. There might not be many attacks one can do with those, but would rather them be out of the picture entirely. 

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