I haven't seen any comments on this for a while so I'll be closing this out and 
posting on Friday.  Please send any last comments before noon PDT.  Thanks!
  Lucas.

On Apr 15, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Lucas Adamski wrote:

> Please reply-to [email protected]
> 
> Name of API: Idle API
> Reference:  https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/IdleAPI
> 
> Brief purpose of API: Notify an app if the user is idle
> General Use Cases: Notify a web page is a user is idle (e.g. to change a 
> status in an instant messaging program)
> 
> Inherent threats:  Privacy implication - signalling mulitple windows at 
> exactly the same time could correlate user identities and compromise privacy
> 
> Threat severity: Low
> 
> == Regular web content (unauthenticated) ==
> Use cases for unauthenticated code: Event is fired when the user is idle
> Authorization model for normal content: Implicit
> Authorization model for installed content:Implicit
> Potential mitigations: Exact time user goes idle can be fuzzy so as to reduce 
> correlation
> 
> == Trusted (authenticated by publisher) ==
> Use cases for authenticated code: As per unauthenticated
> Authorization model: 
> Potential mitigations: 
> 
> == Certified (vouched for by trusted 3rd party) ==
> Use cases for certified code: As per unauthenticated
> Authorization model: 
> Potential mitigations:
> 

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