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Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it’s no longer possible to make a functional indie browser

Back in 2017, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approved the most controversial standard in its long history: Encrypted Media Extensions, or EME, which enabled Netflix and other big media companies to use DRM despite changes to browsers extensions that eliminated the kinds of deep hooks that DRM requires.

At the time, the Electronic ...

Podcast: A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay "A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition", published today on EFF's Deeplinks; it's the latest in my ongoing series of case-studies of "adversarial interoperability," where new services unseated the dominant companies by finding ways ...

Strange codes from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems

ICD-10 is a standard that defines 70,000+ codes for standardizing the reporting of injuries and diseases, and it is terrifyingly comprehensive: if V95.4 ("Unspecified spacecraft accident injuring occupant") isn't enough, how about V97.33XA ("****** into jet engine, initial encounter") and for bisto, V97.33XD ("****** into jet engine, subsequent encounter").

John D Cook has more: Y92.146 ...

Foundries.io promises standardized open source IoT device security

IoT devices currently lack a standard way of applying security. It leaves consumers, whether business or individuals, left to wonder if their devices are secure and up-to-date. Foundries.io, a company that launched today, wants to change that by offering a standard way to secure devices and deliver updates over the air. “Our mission is solving ...

The Logic Behind the Logo-00-3235

07.23.2009 · Posted in Education Articles

A primary concern for patients seeking medical treatment and surgery abroad is safety. One of the key requirements in choosing a healthcare provider in a foreign country is finding one that meets appropriate, internationally accepted standards. The medical tourism industry has a host of organisations and governing bodies. To find the right clinic, it is ...