Re: ACTION-902 (Reprise) Summarise and prepare proposed resolutions on HTTPS link rewriting. from Luca Passani on 2009-03-20 (public-bpwg@w3.org from March 2009)

From: Luca Passani <passani@eunet.no>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:12:24 +0100
To: Public MWBP <public-bpwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <49C37A18.6040705@eunet.no>

David Storey ha scritto:
> A rather poor analogy.  One would think breaking into a house would 
> require more effort than knocking on a door.  UI aso don't think 
> breaking into peoples houses scales.  Even the biggest mastermind 
> crook can't break into millions of homes in a short people. Braking 
> through someone's door also damages their property.  Serving them 
> transcoded content doesn't damage the user in any way more than 
> serving them un-transcoded content.

you misunderstood my analogy. The houses broken into are not the users, 
but the content providers who make an investment to establish end2end 
secure communication between their services and end users.

Transcoders are a serious threat to the mobile ecosystem.

Luca

Received on Friday, 20 March 2009 11:12:59 UTC