On 16/05/14 05:29, Eelis wrote: > On 2014-05-15 20:35, Eelis wrote: >> On 2014-05-15 20:27, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> Mozilla will be shipping an Open Source sandbox for the plugin. >> >> Ah yes, that's also an interesting point, because one of the blog posts >> says: >> >> “Adobe and the content industry can audit our sandbox (as it is open >> source) to assure themselves that we respect the restrictions they are >> imposing on us and users” >> >> Would it not be possible for me (or anyone else) to create a branch of >> Firefox where these restrictions are removed? > > Ah, in [1], Gervase Markham writes: > > "The CDM also verifies that the sandbox is one it trusts, so if you > patch the sandbox, the CDM will no longer work."
>From a previous post in this thread - which you seem to have, um, overlooked:- > You are free to modify the > code for it - but good luck getting the Adobe plugin to install. You can > even write and compile your own sandbox. [as long as the plugin "likes" it - it checks the integrity of the sandbox, the w3c spec has been posted earlier (and this whole issue has been on their mailing lists for a l-ong time)] > > Predictably, many commenters ask how that will work. Gervase says there > will be a technical FAQ in a day or two (I dunno why he can't just give > the answer). > > [1] > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/comment-page-1/ >From the page you started this scare campaign with:- "Mozilla will distribute the sandbox alongside Firefox, and we are working on deterministic builds[*1] that will allow developers to use a sandbox compiled on their own machine with the CDM as an alternative." [*1] byte-for-byte - so it has the correct signature for the plugin. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53751a3c.8080...@gmail.com
