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Mozilla officially opposes Web Enviroment Integrity API (DRM for web pages proposal from Google) (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why can't your browser lie and say "yes of course I'm displaying everything my fingers definitely aren't crossed behind my back"?

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Because it's not just going to say yes. It's going to say yes, and then present an unique key that browser made for themselves. Other browsers might be able to spoof the key, but the proposal might have cryptographically expensive to even try.