On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 11:52:55 AM UTC+1, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
> Hey Paul,
> 
> Le 09/02/2015 12:41, Paul Theriault a écrit :
> > === SMS  ===
> > SMS is risky mainly due to the cost involved. Risks include cost of sending 
> > SMS and also SMS are very sensitive - e.g. often used in 2-factor auth 
> > (e.g. banking)
> >
> > But there are different use cases. For example, many use cases just need 
> > the ability to receive SMS - instead of granting SMS permission, we could 
> > expose a read-only SMS datastore which other apps could observe changes on 
> > which removes the cost risk (but not the sensitive data risk). 
> 
> I don't understand how having a read only access would prevent a webpage
> from reading a 2-factor auth SMS.
> 
> I wonder if we could have a permission as fine as giving access to a
> specific thread ?
> Or access to some properties (the phone numbers) but not others (the SMS
> content) ?
> 
> I'm also not sure how a user can choose knowingly whether he should give
> access to such things from this webpage :/

Neither am I.  I think this calls for "Trusted Web Applications" that would be 
installed locally but invoked from untrusted code.  It would be a complement to
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-intents/2015Feb/0000.html

Trusted web applications would be signed and be usable in IFRAMEs.

Anders
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