>- The web page executing in a user's web browser
>- A third party that can “attest” to the device a web browser is executing on, referred to as the attester
>- The web developers server which can remotely verify attestation responses and act on this information.
Chome only for now but I imagine after it's pushed to Chromium and all the browser based on that Mozilla will implement it too (just like all the other DRM FF has now).
News sites will implement these DRMs, but of course they will still allow Google because it is their source of traffic. Alternative search engines and good bots will be locked out.
Oh please.
I get that it's more satisfying to blame Google than the faceless masses who had zero interest in RSS and who had a variety of alternatives to Reader in any case.
I guess they also had a strategy to kill social media by axing Google+ and user-created encyclopedias by killing Knol.
Google deal with Firefox was always about being the default search engine there, and that's it. They never had any power of cutting it adding features to the project.
Oh well, the world we live in
[0] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
It'll live on in the history of the internet ... foreverrrrrrrrrrr.
These all died in obscurity. This blog post by contrast had a catchy title that HN actually engaged with, and as such is measurably superior.
Blame dang & co, for making forum software in which blogspam is the only way to add comment or meaningfully add context and editorialize. (Since blogspam is officially discouraged I’d say the software is not fit for purpose.)
People were suspicious of TPM and the "trusted computing" initiative and were fed plenty of propaganda about how it will make things "safer" and more "secure". There are corporate mouthpieces spreading that FUD on any article that's even just slightly critical of them and their plans.
Start revolting against these hostile technologies before it's too late. They're slowly boiling the frog and hoping we don't notice.
I doubt they died "of natural causes".
It's not HN's fault that the enemy is huge and yields great influence.
Oh boy. RSS died because it was "only for nerds". Never had I ever met a person outside my tech bubble that had used RSS yet knew what it was. That's not how the average Joe uses the internet.
- make OSS systems second class systems online
- make older devices second class systems online
- prevent people from modifying devices they own (as it'll break the chain of trust and therefore the attestation)
- prevent people from modifying software (custom builds of Chrome, Firefox, etc won't be signed and therefore break the chain of trust and therefore the attestation)
- prevent people from running browser plugins that do things browser authors don't approve of
But hey, from google's PoV, it's a giant win, they can:
- make it harder for anyone else to crawl the web, and therefore compete with google
- make it harder for people to not watch ads, preserving google's revenue streams
- make it harder for anyone to automate the web in ways they or other browser vendors don't like
The 'holdback' mechanism is a joke and I imagine would disappear after a year or two.
Feels like a really good reminder of why it's a terrible idea for google to both be in control of really large important web properties like google search, youtube, maps, ads, but also the single most popular browser.
edit: I hope Apple and MS push back, as they're both vendors with significant marketshare (Mozilla too, but they're smaller). At least if Apple didn't do it, it'd be hard to rely on in US/UK.