open source

Posted May 15, 2014 20:01 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: open source by ballombe
Parent article: Firefox gets closed-source DRM

> So this seems to imply that actually Adobe can prevent users of the CDM to replace the 'open source' component by another that save the content.

It reads to me like Adobe can audit the source. They can try to verify the resulting binary at runtime, but that would probably have an unacceptable high false positive rate (though one option is to not care about that I suppose).