On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Can we keep track of where the stream comes from, and make sure to taint
>> > the images that can come out of them similar to the way that we taint
>> > cross
>> > origin images by default to prevent them from being read back on the
>> > client?  I think with that, and a prompting similar to the camera
>> > prompting
>> > of getUserMedia, we may address a good chunk of these issues.  (But
>> > admittedly I haven't thought very carefully about this yet.)
>> >
>>
>> This is hard because normally you want to transmit these screenshots or
>> sequence of screenshots somewhere. If an app is transmitting them, it can
>> probably capture them at the other end.
>>
>> I guess a permissions approach with an always-on reminder that your screen
>> is being captured can probably work.
>
>
> Unfortunately, for the reasons I mentioned in the post I linked to above,
> it's hard for the user to give informed consent here, as they don't
> understand
> SOP, CSRF, etc.

It's unclear to me what you are suggesting that we should or should not do.

Also, often times there's much more sensitive information captured
from a user's camera, than from a user's screen. Doesn't SOP and CSRF
concerns apply there too?

/ Jonas
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