Of course not - facetious or not, it’s similarly logically and empirically
flawed.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:29 PM Tim Hollebeek via dev-security-policy <
dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> I don't want to spend too much time digressing into a discussion of the
> same
> origin policy as a basis for a reasonable security model for the web, but I
> hope we could all agree on one thing that was abundantly obvious twenty
> years ago, and has only become more obvious:
>
> Anything originally introduced by Netscape is horribly broken and needs to
> be replaced.
>
> -Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev-security-policy [mailto:dev-security-policy-
> > bounces+tim.hollebeek=digicert....@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of
> > Matthew Hardeman via dev-security-policy
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:41 PM
> > To: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org
> > Subject: Re: On the value of EV
> >
> > On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 3:52:40 PM UTC-6, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
> >
> > > Yes. This is the foundation and limit of Web Security.
> > >
> > >
> > https://clicktime.symantec.com/a/1/GrbZLkNqUS91rgzMay4M15oOr3bYABO
> > Whq1
> > > K3U87RIo=?d=pHiUFZpus7xBKMLSCUAfZRndcniHFdqZrXgc-
> > _r0FxYSwiMHScu8QgSvJy
> > > E8LSHlko0v84eVoyDMoTZTqKVUvrQ_LxFgoZAq1f-
> > Iw1ESfQHF0h4v_K1IjkBwaIhjNiNX
> > > coOSGp7NnMokKR3ug1bd6esHHwnMamBgCwow-ecE3suQ9uS4-
> > zfp_NLR0LWp-kXGqFhQqR
> > > AfcAImdNz09yApHBItSOYOep3BWfyNMoDnHxlSQJaFx3zhDxV3a-
> > AkndjySZN86maZVN5c
> > > DBfq3b_73V2qS22vAabmGLFF5uZN8g8Lxstv8tiVTx9_BPzKFZVzWHsrnnheL-
> > W3D22riT
> > > AFkvNYWYFwJ1fHe0NpVNxMU3y4vi7I9_zIoxa24Fox-
> > VmvQlMPLAbZZwHNAumWKMqIhjrt
> > >
> > k76Lk7EkqLehoiC9__j0qne7lDkDd47_&u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%
> > 2Fwi
> > > ki%2FSame-origin_policy
> > >
> > > This is what is programatically enforced. Anything else either
> > > requires new technology to technically enforce it (such as a new
> > > scheme), or is offloading the liability to the user.
> > >
> >
> > The notion that a sub-resource load of a non-EV sort should downgrade the
> EV
> > display status of the page is very questionable.
> >
> > I'm not sure we need namespace separation for EV versus non-EV
> > subresouces.
> >
> > The cause for this is simple:
> >
> > It is the main page resource at the root of the document which causes
> each
> > sub-resource to be loaded.
> >
> > There is a "curatorship", if you will, engaged by the site author.  If
> there are
> > sub-resources loaded in, whether they are EV or not, it is the root page
> > author's place to "take responsibility" for the contents of the DV or EV
> > validated sub-resources that they cause to be loaded.
> >
> > Frankly, I reduce third party origin resources to zero on web
> applications
> on
> > systems I design where those systems have strong security implications.
> >
> > Of course, that strategy is probably not likely to be popular at Google,
> which
> > is, in a quite high percentage of instances, the target origin of all
> kinds of sub-
> > resources loaded in pages across the web.
> >
> > If anyone takes the following comment seriously, this probably spawns an
> > entirely separate conversation: I regard an EV certificate as more of a
> code-
> > signing of a given webpage / website and of the sub-resources whether or
> not
> > same origin, as they descend from the root page load.
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> > https://clicktime.symantec.com/a/1/oq_SYtg88dEoDRxJA115VhfXkFgyjy6paw
> > HDkVPMqrM=?d=pHiUFZpus7xBKMLSCUAfZRndcniHFdqZrXgc-
> > _r0FxYSwiMHScu8QgSvJyE8LSHlko0v84eVoyDMoTZTqKVUvrQ_LxFgoZAq1f-
> > Iw1ESfQHF0h4v_K1IjkBwaIhjNiNXcoOSGp7NnMokKR3ug1bd6esHHwnMamBg
> > Cwow-ecE3suQ9uS4-zfp_NLR0LWp-
> > kXGqFhQqRAfcAImdNz09yApHBItSOYOep3BWfyNMoDnHxlSQJaFx3zhDxV3a-
> > AkndjySZN86maZVN5cDBfq3b_73V2qS22vAabmGLFF5uZN8g8Lxstv8tiVTx9_B
> > PzKFZVzWHsrnnheL-
> > W3D22riTAFkvNYWYFwJ1fHe0NpVNxMU3y4vi7I9_zIoxa24Fox-
> > VmvQlMPLAbZZwHNAumWKMqIhjrtk76Lk7EkqLehoiC9__j0qne7lDkDd47_&u
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