alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft cant and will not break that trust, because then Netflix and others will stop serving content to Microsoft products.
This is similar to HTTPS certificate chain of trust. The root signing authority needs to be trusted, but once you break that trust there's no going back. It is a self-regulating system.
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AnthonyMouse • 06/17/2025
Why does Netflix care if Microsoft is hoovering up all the user's data? Why would they even care if Microsoft was giving itself access to the Netflix streams? Unlike with Signal there are no real secrets in there.
Plus, what is Netflix even going to do? Stop supporting streaming on Microsoft platforms and then lose a bunch of subscribers for no benefit to themselves?
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I believe that they could just ignore the Signal app's request to DRM protect the content. Unless Signal is actually encrypting the whole app content before submitting it to Windows it is just a request.
This is a bit different to encrypted video where it is actually being encrypted off device.