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icebraining
3202 days ago
We could have neither, though.
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tptacek
3202 days ago
By what, banning plugins? Now you're asking the anti-DRM people to do exactly what they're angry at the pro-DRM people for doing: preventing people from running a particular kind of program on their computer. It's an incoherent position.
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Furmark
3201 days ago
Not banning, simply not providing api for them.
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tptacek
3201 days ago
That doesn't work. Look what happens with AV providers: they hack their own plugin interface into the browser, and everybody loses more security.
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madez
3202 days ago
You can have arbitrary exceptions to ensure coherency. There is no reasonable need to have a position without exceptions. Reality isn't that simple.
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