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Thanks for the link. Do you know what he means when he says the "World Wide Web Consortium continues to infect the core standards of the web itself to allow rem
by nunyabuizness 12y ago
Thanks for the link. Do you know what he means when he says the "World Wide Web Consortium continues to infect the core standards of the web itself to allow remote control over your computer against your wishes?"
- rst 12y agoHe's referring to their standard for embedding hooks for DRM into web pages, the so-called "Encrypted Media Extensions": https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/ https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/
- nunyabuizness 12y agoI don't understand, doesn't this only apply to DRM content? How does this enable remote control of your browser?
- eps 12y agoDRM ensures that browser doesn't always behave the way you want it to behave. You no longer have full control over it, you give a part of it away to 3rd party.
- pixl97 12y agoNo, it's about control of your browser. In standard HTML a server sends you some text bits and data streams and your browser chooses what it wants to do with them. Save them, display them on the screen, ignore them, etc. With DRM the browser has to be specifically engineered to do not what you want it to do, but what the person sending the data wants it to do. This is almost always done inside of some kind of 'black box of digital magic', be it software or hardware. If you had control or insight of the black box it is likely you could subvert control of the encrypted media. Now I won't say that it directly enables control over your browser any more so than Flash does (Only 76 CVE's in 2014), but every black box is a point of attack for hackers.
- nunyabuizness 12y agoAhh gotcha. Thanks.
- jacquesm 12y agohttps://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/ https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/ edit: RST you're wicked fast, you beat me by all of 3 ms there or so :) Have an upvote!