Jim McDonald writes: >Jonathon Suggs wrote: >> One of the biggest mantra's I hear coming from the FOSS camp is "choice" >> and so keeping with the whole practice what you preach ideal, I think >> the level of encryption should be a user configurable preference. >> >I'd caveat that with comment that one of the biggest bugbears against >the FOSS camp is "usability" so if this type of thing is going to be >implemented then it should be a single system-wide option that gets >handled away in the backend so that applications don't even need to know >about it and that users don't have to pick and choose (or worse, select >on a per-application basis) what data is encrypted.
We certainly want a global scheme -- but I think we do want a per-data-item granularity. I've certainly got things on my phone whose protection I don't care about (shopping lists) and other things that have legal implications (notes on how various students' class presentations went). I want to be able to choose "save this encrypted" vs. "save this", and then when I access data I've encrypted I have to enter the password. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
