On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 22:54 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > I just read an interesting article[1] about using the gps in combination with > the > addressbook. Slashdot has a discussion about the obvious drawbacks. > What are your thoughts about this?
Ha! My friend had this exact same idea a few years ago, at which point we bemoaned the lack of programmable mass-market phones ;-) But for me Security is not about Secrecy, it's about Control. If I can easily and reliably opt-in or out of a system like this, then why not? Going a little off-topic - say Bob writes a GPS application which does something similar to that idea, where would it be downloaded from? His own server? OpenMoko.org/com? Say furthermore that he wrote a little web-app so that you could customise the behaviour for different friends or locations, would that have to be on his own server too, or could we have a known secure/trusted server to do that from? For example, if I order my phone and it's gonna take 2-3 weeks for shipping, or it's just out of charge... it'd be awesome to have the ability to queue installation and configuration options for a variety of third-party applications, all in one place -- if there was a standardised application-layer option mechanism (in XML?), then this could be both powerful and easy. I'm thinking in terms of having to visit different sites for different applications to tweak different things - such fragmentation is a bad thing from the end-user and security vantage points. Richard _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
