Siguza
siguza@infosec.exchange
So one of the people behind that Google WebDRM proposal wrote a blog post where he:
- Assumes a victim role
- Wants the reader to feel guilty for speaking out against Google because that hurts the people working there
- Dismisses all legal criticism because Big Tech doesn't want their employees to comment on that
- Dismisses all non-technical criticism because he doesn't care about it
- Dismisses the remaining criticism because he doesn't like how it's presented to him
- Wants the reader to think about Google's intentions as a hidden agenda, when their agenda with web attestation is pretty damn overt
- Wants the reader to think that no such hidden agenda exists, without actually claiming so
- Wants the reader to think that anything evil in the spec is unintentional, without actually claiming so
- Asks for future feedback to please follow these rules laid out by Big Tech or it's your fault if you get ignored
No mention of ethics or honesty.
No "I know this looks bad". No "I promise this isn't to hurt users". Just manipulative language to make you think he's saying more than "you can't prove this will be used for evil".
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Flit 🦊 🔥
flit@guild.pmdcollab.org@siguza I'm as against this as everyone else, but why are people calling this DRM?
From what I understand, DRM serves a fundamentally different purpose, so I think it's misleading to call it that.
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> To be more concrete and clear, personal attacks or threats addressed at the folks working on the platform are not OK. That's not how you get your voice heard, that's how you get yourself banned!
Making things personal is a really good way to make people feel ashamed of working for the bad guys, and it looked like it worked alright for Yoav Weiss, even if he still seems to be clueless or dangerously negligent about it
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