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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by metajack on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:08PM (#14722558)
CDMs are sandboxed, which is an improvement over the NPAPI plugins. I don't think we have to worry much about Sony rootkit attacks at least.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by the8472 on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:48PM (#14722826)
> which is an improvement over the NPAPI plugins.

why does that argument get thrown around so much? flash runs in sandboxed processes too these days.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by metajack on Saturday July 08, 2017 @12:21PM (#14725937)
It runs in a separate process. I don't think that process is sandboxed in Firefox. And you probably can't restrict it too much or most Flash apps wouldn't work.
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