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WebGL 3D API 'harmful', says Microsoft

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 8 comments
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Microsoft has attacked the Khronos Group's WebGL, a cross-platform 3D graphics API for the web found in Firefox and Chrome, as being & harmful& and & not a technology ... (we) ... can endorse from a security perspective.& Hostile websites could use WebGL to steal the contents of a user's screen or freeze or reboot systems at will, the company charges.

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Comments (8)

gus3 ·
Windows has had an API for stealing window contents and injecting events for YEARS. Their testing system ("Microsoft Test", how imaginitive) does these for its stock in trade.

And let's not forget the Print Screen key. It doesn't just capture a window's contents, it can capture an entire screen!
tracyanne ·
And Microsoft's COM (ActiveX) technology enables it to be done remotely.
tuxchick ·
I love to start the day with a good comedy piece.
tuxchick ·
Quoting: Microsoft's posting concludes, "We recognize the need to provide solutions in this space. However it is our goal that all such solutions are secure by design, secure by default, and secure in deployment."
Fettoosh ·
Quoting:Microsoft's posting concludes,...


Woow, so much irony even made Carla speechless!!!
BernardSwiss ·
It's a cancer!

Stay away from it -- it'll infect the whole computer industry, and maybe even bring modern civilization to its knees!.



More seriously:

why isn't this a concern with having whole UIs implemented in HTML and javascript?
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
Hmm, Microsoft saying something is not secure enough is like the pot calling the..well you get my drift.

;-)

herzeleid ·
Haha - I read that as "microsoft's posturing concludes..."

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