alt Hacker NewsIf we stipulate that, we're still left wondering what the utility is of a standard that creates affordances for the insecure defaults, as opposed to just designing it right from the beginning.
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ForHackernews • yesterday at 10:22 PM
Spec writers and library authors are human? Who knew
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> utility is of a standard that creates affordances for the insecure defaults
You could make the same argument about Cookies.
> as opposed to just designing it right from the beginning
And generally, it's quite difficult to design it right from the beginning because one would often start with the wrong assumptions. Most standards evolve, and it should be acceptable.