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Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support by serge2k on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @05:15AM (#9537688)
This isn't security through obscurity, unless the DRM implementation being a secret actually does provide security. I doubt it does, beyond the fact that an audit of the source could probably find a load of security issues.

Of course an audit of OpenSSL would do the same.

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Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:59AM (#9538518)
* unless the DRM implementation being a secret actually does provide security.*

It Does, because it is illegal(at least in the US) to reverse engineer it.

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Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support by jarrettc on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @06:34PM (#9542429)
> This isn't security through obscurity

I don't necessarily disagree. But how, other than through obscurity, does HTML5 DRM inhibit copying, given that the client possesses the decryption key? (Let's assume the would-be attackers aren't dissuaded by any laws that might apply.)

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