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Google's Web Environment Integrity Will Destroy The Web #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/tm3gH-ycykw

Google's Web Environment Integrity Will Destroy The Web

Of all the terrible ideas to come out of google, the web environment integrity proposal has got to be worst one, effectively it's DRM for the general web.===...
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in reply to Brodie Robertson

Bill Sideris
Bill Sideris
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Can't wait for when I have to have to attest my microcontroller firmware to go and sign an api request with my 40kb of ram. :ablobcatbongokeyboard:
in reply to Brodie Robertson

NiceMicro
NiceMicro
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what a coincidence, this many Google employees having the same hobby of making proposals on curtailing the internet!
in reply to Brodie Robertson

nosbig
nosbig
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Do you feel we should focus heavily on supporting what's left of the open web and using things like static sites and/or self-hosted solutions to maintain digital sovereignty of our own portion of the Web or have we found any other technologies which could be used in replacement for the Web, like Gemini or Gopher?
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Paul L
Paul L
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I wonder whether you'd be interested in following up with a comparision with the RFC for the *Evil Bit*
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514

You might already know about it but if not do double check the date after reading 😀
Published 10 years after the clipper chip.

As Google's proposal is effectively a modern analogy of setting a flag to attest that the host or traffic is benign my thoughts did turn to it being an Inverse Evil Bit, and how this approach has been parodied 20 years ago.

RFC 3514: The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header

www.rfc-editor.org

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