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Perhaps I could have been more clear; when I say "porting" I mean from the perspective of a vendor. The current status quo is that content is available only whe
by rainforest 13y ago
Perhaps I could have been more clear; when I say "porting" I mean from the perspective of a vendor. The current status quo is that content is available only where Adobe can be bothered to provide Flash. Given that constructing a "secure" black is a smaller task than providing a standardised runtime environment, it's feasible that vendors might target more than just Windows and OSX. This has nothing to do with source availability.
w.r.t easier reverse engineering, given the behaviour is constrained to the target blob and the interface is standardised, liberating content should be simplified. As far as security vulnerabilities go the choice still remains, run the blob or don't view the content.
- wmf 13y agoOTOH, it will be impossible to port CDMs to browsers that don't allow CDM plugins. Do we think Safari or Metro IE are going to allow them?
- rainforest 13y agoThe same can be said of Flash, however. The other side of that coin is that content will never be available DRM free, so I'm not sure if it's an important point; mobile content delivery is normally achieved via apps, or in the BBC iPlayer's case, in the browser, "protected" by a client certificate.
- wmf 13y agoFlash is specifically grandfathered by browsers but EME isn't.