All platform security is enforced at the process level, not by the VM.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:15 AM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jni/download/jni.pdf 10.9 Violating
> Access Control Rules.  In jni.pdf it says "It is possible to write
> native code to access or modify fields of an object even though doing
> so at the Java programming language level would lead to an
> IllegalAccessException."  Does this mean that some aspects of Androids
> internals can be 'messed with'? or are things like public/private/
> protected not used for enforcing security in the framework? And are
> the Manifest.permissions checks done in such a way that this is not a
> problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>


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