Re: Comments on the EME opinion

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Domenic Denicola
> <domenic@domenicdenicola.com> wrote:
>> Finally there's the aspect that the TAG would prefer any privacy-sensitive
>> features (of which EME is one, I believe) to be restricted to secure
>> origins. Search for "RESOLUTION: We support..." in
>> https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2014/sept29-oct1/09-29-f2f-minutes.md.
>
> In practice there's no reason for EME in browsers to be any more privacy
> sensitive than regular cookies.

I agree that that's true in *principle*. However, as far as *practice*
goes, is any browser other than Firefox known to have made or be on
track making it true in *practice*? I don't recall any browser vendor
other than Mozilla having made public statements about endeavors to
make it so. OTOH, the concerns Googlers raised in
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26332 strongly suggest
that they have a concrete reason (that they don't name) to be worried
about it not being true for some key system / CDM.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@hsivonen.fi
https://hsivonen.fi/

Received on Wednesday, 22 October 2014 07:17:30 UTC