Hello people, it's Chrome opening up your camera for "good"... or bad (twitter.com)

2 points by boi 13y ago ↗ HN

Chrome Developers (@ChromiumDev) tweeted at 10:44 PM on Tue, Feb 05, 2013:

Chrome's permission bar will not re-prompt, once accepted, for Camera & Mic (getUserMedia, Web Speech API) if page is served on HTTPS

(https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/298925039519166465)

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boi 13y ago ↗

This is a secure problem, have your camera open just because once you enter a website is absurd, jut because you open your house's door when is necessary doesn't mean you should leave it open. This idea that SSL is all what it takes for a server to be reliable is nonsense.