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Update Security and privacy considerations #47

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Expand "Request User Consent" considerations, add "Limit API Usage" considerations and suggested mitigations per W3C Security review feedback:

w3c/security-request#71


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Expand "Request User Consent" considerations, add "Limit API Usage"
considerations and suggested mitigations per W3C Security
review feedback:

w3c/security-request#71
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are encouraged to complement the normatively defined sticky
activation-based user activation-gating mitigation with the
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Encouraging implementers to implement normatively-defined things is weird. If they are normative then implementations should be doing them. This section probably needs a larger rewrite given that implementations currently do not inform the user when the API is in use either, or provide a mechanism to disable it.

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Thanks, yes indeed. I think it is clearer to simply remove the sentence starting with "Implementers are encouraged to ...".

And, considering the intent of this specification update is to specify what is currently implemented, the appropriate RFC 2119 term to use in this context is MAY. If implementations agree to add these additional mitigations, we will adjust the term accordingly.

These fixes are at 1304787

@himorin himorin added the security-tracker Group bringing to attention of security, or tracked by the security Group but not needing response. label Oct 28, 2024
@anssiko anssiko merged commit d055733 into gh-pages Oct 28, 2024
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@anssiko anssiko deleted the security-review-considerations branch October 28, 2024 11:38
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