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Can anyone summarize what WEI is an why its bad?

• zarzavat 3y ago
  DRM for web browsing. A website would be able to request an attestation that your browser is “trusted”, i.e. it is secure and unmodified. Because some systems are by definition untrusted, e.g. Linux, or Firefox compiled from source, these users might be blocked from certain websites. At least that seemed like the intention, otherwise what’s the point of building such a feature?
  • jezzamon 3y ago
    If you want the "assuming good intent" explanation it was to be able to detect spam and bots which apparently are a significant problem now and are no longer stopped by captchas. One online community I'm part of literally turned off new sign ups because they couldn't stop the bot problem (ldjam.com). Users also find captchas annoying so it supposedly stop the need for that for many cases (except for when you're in the 10% hold out group or whatever)
    • zarzavat 3y ago
      There’s still no way to tell the difference between a Linux user and a bot through such an attestation mechanism. So the effect on users is the same regardless of the intention.