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> "more privacy" BS -> the proprietary DRM plugin is much less controllable by the user than Flash and Silverlight Please explain.
by valleyer 13y ago
> "more privacy" BS -> the proprietary DRM plugin is much less controllable by the user than Flash and Silverlight
Please explain.
- pyalot2 13y agoflash and silverlight have gone trough an evolution where they are obligated to respect a users privacy and not to allow doing arbitrary things (like installing a rootkit on a machine) because of that. The DRM plugins being more or less directly supplied by the MPAA have no restriction or expectation whatsoever. Users can't execute arbitrary code on them (maybe) but the providers of the plugin can very well install rootkits on your machine, and they're not obligated to give a user any control over the privacy and inner working of the plugin.