> You can, of course, access your bank from a browser.
For now. Do you think the W3C would resist if banks tried to standardise a way for sites to determine if you are running with Secure Boot enabled? This would be part of a system to prevent browsers from spoofing their user agent string / version number.
They ignored the protests of those opposed to DRM, and I can't imagine there being as much objection to banks trying to protect users from browser vulnerabilities and kernel-level keyloggers.
Of course some Free Software advocates would again "cry wolf", predicting that banks would start to block requests from "unapproved" OSes, but those claims would be dismissed as scaremongering, right up until it started happening (and the wolf started eating their sheep).
For now. Do you think the W3C would resist if banks tried to standardise a way for sites to determine if you are running with Secure Boot enabled? This would be part of a system to prevent browsers from spoofing their user agent string / version number.
They ignored the protests of those opposed to DRM, and I can't imagine there being as much objection to banks trying to protect users from browser vulnerabilities and kernel-level keyloggers.
Of course some Free Software advocates would again "cry wolf", predicting that banks would start to block requests from "unapproved" OSes, but those claims would be dismissed as scaremongering, right up until it started happening (and the wolf started eating their sheep).