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Re: [rtcweb] What is consent?

Bernard Aboba <bernard_aboba@hotmail.com> Thu, 13 September 2012 00:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] What is consent?
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On Sep 12, 2012, at 6:40 PM, "Harald Alvestrand" <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
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> The browser being used to stage an attack will of course not know this value, since its signalling is controlled by the attacker, but the browser being attacked will be able to tell the difference between a within-contract amount of data and an out-of-contract amount of data.
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>              Harald

[BA] Correct, but how does the receiver turn off the spigot? Is this handled via circuit breakers?

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