Re: [whatwg] Media sink device selection on <audio>/<video>

On 04/02/2014 07:52 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Ami Fischman wrote:
>> Looks like we're back in business:
>>
>> Latest editor's draft:
>> http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html
> Thanks.
>
> As a user, this scares me a lot. Why isn't it up to me to control this? I
> don't understand the security model here at all. I don't want random Web
> pages to know that they can pipe audio to the remote speakers in my
> bedroom from my laptop, but if we just expose all the audio output
> devices, that's exactly what will be possible.
>
> Without a much clearer security model, I don't think it's a good idea to
> add any APIs.
>
Would it make sense to group the access to sinks in with access to 
sources - that is, "this page wants access to your cameras, microphones 
and audio output devices"?

(either on a per-device basis or as an all-or-nothing prompting)

Received on Monday, 7 April 2014 15:59:51 UTC