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This is the next step after cordova-like development tools to create networking crossplatform web app. I like it. My only concern is about security



Security is definitely something that needs to be thought about, and thought about carefully.

Mozilla's security team is already aware of the project and have done some initial analysis of potential approaches to securing/encrypting FlyWeb. There are multiple issues to work through - and we (the FlyWeb team) will definitely need to satisfy the concerns of the security team at some point soon.

Our collaboration with the security team hasn't begun in earnest yet - mostly because we've been too busy with everything else (basic design, implementation, proof-of-concept demos). For the next couple months, we're just field-testing the basic architecture and trying to get tinkerers and early adopters to play with it. We want to confirm our personal intuition that the architecture and design has legs, and that it lets people build worthwhile solutions that would otherwise have been hard to do.




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