On Mon 16 Sep 2013 12:57:06 PM PDT, Jim Blandy wrote:
On 09/15/2013 04:41 AM, Paul Theriault wrote:
The benefit of exposing the protocol, with a light activation burden,
for all our users, is major. It is directly in line with our goals:
helping the web be a vibrant, creative medium; providing an on-ramp
and lowering barriers to entry for new creators in new markets; and
making a device that answers to the user first.
The best way to help users with stolen phones would be to provide a
remote kill facility, not to make the phone harder to hack on for all
our technical users who have not had their phones stolen.
Yes, this is exactly the right approach. As a user who has had his
phone stolen, I didn't care whether I had a passcode on the phone or
whether I had USB Debugging enabled (I had both) I cared that I had a
remote kill switch to erase the phone. It's faster, it's easier, and
it's fool proof. While still at the bar where it happened, I borrowed a
buddy's phone, logged in, and killed my stolen phone.
If we allow ourselves to go down this rabbit hole too far we will have
a very secure phone at the cost of handcuffing would-be developers for
the web platform. I don't think that's the direction we should take
with Firefox OS.
Clint
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