The intent does contain the sender of the intent. If you use
intent.getStringExtra("from") you will get the senders jid. If you
only want to process intent from a select group of people you will
need to add a check before processing it.On Mar 31, 4:35 pm, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following conceptual question: > > If I look at the GTalkDataMessageReceiver example > (http://code.google.com/android/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/google/androi... > ) the receiver receives an intent that the sender sent. Except for the > name "GTalk", there is nothing in that class that uses any GTalk > related API. The intent could therefore either come from a local > sender or from a remote sender. > > Of course, the sender has to be part of the buddy list of the receiver > for this to work, but if this is the case, it seems the IntentReceiver > will not obtain any information about who sent this intent (unless the > sender is kind enough to put this information into the bundle). > > I have the following concerns: > * Once I have rights to send intents to a phone, I could send > arbitrary intents and trigger arbitrary events on anther person's > phone. > * The intent receivers do not know who sent the intent. If this > information is passed in the bundle, a sender could pretend to be a > different sender. > > There should probably be additional permission settings on the > receiver's side which determine which intents can be received from > which sender. So far, I don't see any permission that can handle this. > > Or am I missing something here? > > Peli --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
