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I have an eerie feeling that one of the next major "scandals" in technology will center around companies who learn how to abuse the real-time video/audio capabi

I have an eerie feeling that one of the next major "scandals" in technology will center around companies who learn how to abuse the real-time video/audio capabilities of the browser without disclosing (clearly) to end users the implications. These days anyone with a bit of programming knowledge can now open WebRTC sessions from the server, decrypt the contents, and multiplex streams back to clients (great for large group video chats). A great capability IMO, but immense potential for abuse by bad actors. I think now is a perfect time for people "in the know" to start educating the public on this.

Sean-Der 7y ago
There was a bunch of abuse that already happened with host candidates, was fixed recently though! [0] Tor also did a bunch of really great work figuring out all the ways you can be fingerprinted.[1] When I shared [2] a lot of people gave me flack for enabling malware. I don't come from that background, so hard to think 'how can people abuse this technology' It is too late now to roll back all the WebRTC stuff in the browser now though :) Definitely would be mind blowing how much data is flowing because of it (and how much money is being made because of it). [0] https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/ https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/ [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake/Fingerprinting https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake/... [2] https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication