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Security and privacy risks of insecure transport / mixed content. #1201

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npdoty opened this issue Mar 19, 2020 · 0 comments
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Security and privacy risks of insecure transport / mixed content. #1201

npdoty opened this issue Mar 19, 2020 · 0 comments
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privacy-needs-resolution Issue the Privacy Group has raised and looks for a response on.

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npdoty commented Mar 19, 2020

Using insecure transports threatens the integrity of the content displayed to the user: even if the video and the TTML file are both delivered over HTTPS, loading a font over HTTP could lead to corruption or insertion of a misleading translation of the content. This would presumably also apply to image captions and subtitles loaded from external resources.

We should note secure transport as a security and privacy issue in TTML 2 and TTML 2 (2nd Edition) and reference that from IMSC 1.2. That change could be: 1) requiring secure transport; 2) prohibiting mixed content; or 3) non-normatively noting the risks to confidentiality and integrity.

It would be a good practice to use HTTPS as the scheme in examples throughout the specs.

From email: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2020JanMar/0055.html
Issue noted while reviewing IMSC 1.2 for privacy and security, as raised in PING.

@plehegar plehegar added the privacy-needs-resolution Issue the Privacy Group has raised and looks for a response on. label Mar 19, 2020
@skynavga skynavga changed the title security and privacy risks of insecure transport / mixed content Security and privacy risks of insecure transport / mixed content. Jul 28, 2020
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