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Re: [rtcweb] Notes on security for browser-based screen/application sharing

"Timothy B. Terriberry" <tterriberry@mozilla.com> Tue, 26 March 2013 21:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Notes on security for browser-based screen/application sharing
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Stephen Farrell wrote:
> Are there other things on the user's device that might
> end up being shared? E.g. accelerometers or other sensors.
> There have been papers demonstrating that access to such
> information can reveal lots of things, e.g. passwords.

You mean like <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681562>?

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