Just what you want eh? The browser you are using to browse the web, to do business, banking, in control of your camera and microphone.
On 2015/Feb/25, at 2:43 PM, Stephen Loosley wrote: >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:53:16 +1100 >> >> Not everyone thinks HTTP/2 and SPDY is such a good thing. It has privacy >> issues among others. > > Maybe a little harsh matey? HTTP/2 is the latest Internet Engineering > Steering Group spec > we have, including regarding privacy. Large numbers of people have > contributed to HTTP/2 > but the most > active participants are volunteer engineers from projects like Firefox, > Twitter, Microsoft's HTTP stack, Curl and Akamai, as well as HTTP > implementers in languages like Python, Ruby, NodeJS. > https://github.com/http2/http2.github.io/blob/master/faq/index.md > > So it's been developed by volunteers, and then incorporated into Firefox also > by volunteers. > > The alternative is going back to Google's SPDY, which even Google is ditching > for HTTP/2 in this month's and all future versions of Chrome. And finally all > web browsers now use HTTP/2 over secure TLS implementations and so sessions > are much more secure than previous HTTP implementations. Sure, it's not > perfect, but it is free, and, the volunteers are certainly trying. > > In terms of the Mozilla Hello Conversations Beta resource, it'll be > interesting to see how this Skype-like feature takes off. It could be a real > bonus, the first global communications system built directly into browsers. I > believe this version of Conversations also shares Wi-Fi and the signals of > mobile > devices for enhanced geolocation services and provides support for context > aware applications. And, this Firefox Hello free video-chat service also > allows users > to talk to contacts on Firefox, Chrome or Opera. Apparently in future Mozilla > is adding more features to the Conversations live video chat project such as > screen sharing and web-based collaboration. > > So altogether, a pretty fair open source effort by thousands of world > volunteers one might say? > > Cheers, > Stephen > > > -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
