I should have known this already....

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Dianne Hackborn<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
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> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
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> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
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