[X3D-Public] Microsoft Weights in on WebGL Security Flap

[Tony Parisi]

Hi Lauren,

I honestly don't know which way they'll go on this. The only thing us peons
can do is build cool s$$t. That's the part we screwed up on back in the VRML
day, nothing was compelling enough (not our fault, the tech was immature).
Build it, they will come. Even MS. Especially MS.


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:13 AM, GLG <info at 3dnetproductions.com> wrote:

> Thank you for this Tony. MS may come around (if WebGL
> "security flaws" are addressed), but their blog's
> conclusion (see below) leads me to believe they
> will also try to implement their own approach/codebase.
> Perhaps a sandboxed DirectX subset/derivative? And the
> saga continues... Cheers, Lauren
>
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> We believe that WebGL will likely become an ongoing source
> of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities. In its current form, WebGL
> is not a technology Microsoft can endorse from a security
> perspective.
>
> 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.
>
> - MSRC Engineering
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-co
> nsidered-harmful.aspx
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