Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw...
by fixermark on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:04PM
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That was my first thought when I saw the spec for WebGL.
"Oh boy! I'm super excited to be running arbitrary code I downloaded from web sites against an API that was never security-hardened!"
Fortunately for me, my fears turned out to be overblown in that specific instance; there were a few security bugs, but they were patched with relative swiftness.
Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw...
by eridius on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:15PM
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I believe this specific fear is why Safari waited so long before enabling it for everyone (for a long time you had to manually turn it on in the Develop menu).
"Oh boy! I'm super excited to be running arbitrary code I downloaded from web sites against an API that was never security-hardened!"
Fortunately for me, my fears turned out to be overblown in that specific instance; there were a few security bugs, but they were patched with relative swiftness.