On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:01 AM, Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org> wrote:

> On 25/04/17 16:46, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > This suggests that maybe we could just turn it off
>
> It would be sad to remove a capability from the web platform which
> native apps have.


I'm not sure why it would be particularly sad if almost nobody uses it.


Surely we can avoid this problem without being so
> drastic?


Perhaps, but actually designing such security measures is expensive, so
absent some argument that this is in wide use, probably doesn't
pass a cost/benefit test.

-Ekr


> Is it right that one key use of this sensor is to see if the
> person has the phone up against their face, right? If so, reducing to a
> small number of quantized levels would do the trick.
>
> Gerv
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