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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by metajack on Friday July 07, 2017 @05:38PM (#14722332)
Before DRM plugins could access anything. Now they live in a sandbox which was not possible when they were NPAPI plugins. So the security story is actually much better as far as I know.

It still sucks to infect the web with this nonsense, but at least it can't do as much evil crap.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by kevin_b_er on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:50PM (#14722839)
Now the DRM plugin can only access the DRM subsystem installed on your machine that has root enough access to verify your files, OS version, and graphics drivers, as well as a callchain allowing them to make draw calls to your GPU driver.
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