Re: HbbTV and Web origins

On 27/04/2015 04:22 , Mark Nottingham wrote:
> This summary:
> http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/04/23/from-the-aether-to-the-ethernet-attacking-the-internet-using-broadcast-digital-television/
>
>  of this paper:
> http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/2014/redbutton-usenix-sec14.pdf
>
>  … makes for an interesting / scary read.

Yes, I remember when this came out. I couldn't stop laughing.

> I know that W3C has been engaging with various parts of the
> TV/broadcast community, but it seems like there's been a failure of
> some sort here, at least based on this; violating the origin model is
> pretty serious.

To the best of my knowledge there has been no discussion between HbbTV 
and the W3C on this. The paper was brought to HbbTV who apparently 
shrugged it off, so I'm not sure how much impact we would add, though.

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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon

Received on Monday, 11 May 2015 09:38:51 UTC