On Sep 30, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2014-09-30, 4:29 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>>> More immediately we should make it impossible to make persistent
>>> grants for these features on unauthenticated origins.
>> 
>> This I agree with when it comes to privacy-sensitive API: Granting a
>> persistent permission to an http: origin amounts to granting a
>> persistent permission to everyone who in the future has a chance of
>> performing an active MITM attack on you.
> 
> I also think that we should definitely stop persisting the geolocation 
> permission grant for non-authenticated origins.  I'm not really sure if web 
> compat allows us to remove support for the API completely (although 
> admittedly I don't have data on this.)

Either way, we should collect some data before we take action.


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