- From: Charlie M <i2cmars@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:39:04 +0000
- To: site-comments@w3.org
- Message-Id: <484465.40444.qm@web51008.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
I would like to know how, and where, I can make comments / feedback as a computer professional about the additional features in HTML-5. Mainly, I am concerned about security; allowing access to my email, even just the 'Subject' line, is far more than I want without explicitly allowing it. Also, after reading the NYTimes story which featured some comments from Samy Kamkar, and his "Evercookie" ( "it stores information in at least 10 places on a computer, far more than usually found. It combines traditional tracking tools with new features that come with the new Web language"), I am very concerned that, even if you try to restrict coders from gaining too much access, that any mistakes in HTML-5 will allow downloading of MY (read that as "Restricted, never to be seen, copyrighted" material), personal pictures, etc. As with anything Microsoft, where they activate a computer with ALL defenses turned off and allowing complete "from outside" access, you seem to be going that way. However, PROTECTION and PRIVACY should be the FIRST AND FOREMOST CONCERN. For starters, storing information should be restricted to 1 or 2 places on a PC, all browsers should have a 'directory Tree' structure for options - click the 'main folder' and ALL tracking features under it are turned 'off', but to turn 'on' a tracking feature should require clicking each 'box', and all browsers should have the same heading for these security features so anyone can easily find them. YOU are making HTML-5 --- you CAN make these restrictions mandatory. Personally, if I find out my security is compromised, I plan to find the best lawyer available and go after everyone involved. But if I have control of my PC, then any failure if my fault, not yours. Thank You, Charles Miller
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