On 11/5/12 6:47 PM, "Brady Eidson" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>> And/or coming up with an API to allow application developers
>> to close sessions on a per origin basis and benefit from related
>> security/privacy guarantees (wiping-out session storage, cookies, etc.).
>
>Sites can already clean up individual session-ey nuggets on a
>case-by-case basis.
>
>I'm not sure I like the idea of giving them the nuclear option as they'll
>just start using that liberally instead of thinking things through.  This
>could cause excess i/o and/or lock contention where such semantics are
>defined.

Nuclear options have privacy guarantees which other options don't have.
That's also something to consider.

--tobie



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