On 28/10/2014 13:49, John Levine wrote: >> No. I mean that a badly motivated web site can pretend to offer safe material >> using this but actually offer objectionable material (for whatever definition >> of safe or objectionable you care to adopt). For example a site being used >> to "groom" innocent victims could pretend that all its content was safe. >> This would actually make the site much more dangerous than before, because >> of the illusion of safety. > > How does this differ from the current situtation? Any site can show > logos that say "100% family friendly", and have a safe mode flag you > can toggle in your browser. Yes, of course, but now they could automatically persuade a browser itself that they conform to the IETF RFC7xxx standard for safe browsing. Maybe the browser could display a little "figleaf" icon just like the little "padlock" icon. I'm going to shut up now because I've made my point as clearly as I can. Brian