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Encrypted Media Extensions
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"Provide per-origin user alerts / prompts and permissions" headings do not accurately reflect the content #315

Closed ddorwin closed 8 years ago

ddorwin commented 8 years ago

Both the Security and Privacy sections have mitigations with the heading "Provide per-origin user alerts / prompts and permissions".

The current heading could be interpreted as:

  1. The mitigation is to provide alerts or permission prompts.
  2. The mitigation is to ensure that any alerts, prompts, or permissions are per-origin.

More importantly, both contain important requirements that extend beyond alerts, prompts, or permissions. The per origin (and per browsing profile) requirements in the following paragraph are an additional mitigation. Certainly those requirements must (#314) be per-origin, but that is not the most important mitigation in these sections.

Specifically:

mwatson2 commented 8 years ago

I'm not sure what is proposed to be changed here.

jdsmith3000 commented 8 years ago

I agree that #314, #315 and #316 are worthwhile editorial changes.

For this one, I believe we want to change: Provide per-origin user alerts / prompts and permissions

To: Ensure that users are fully informed and/or give explicit consent

ddorwin commented 8 years ago

Yes, that is the type of change I was referring to. I'll make a PR.

ddorwin commented 8 years ago

PR #322.