On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:28:09 +0100 Dominig ar Foll <[email protected]> said:
> > Hello, > > while the initial request from IVI is about policing Windows depending > of the the movement of the car but the model is very interesting from a > security point of view. this is why i actually advocate that things like vkbd,login/screenlock etc. be done as internal components of the display manager/compositor itself. they are not just "any old random window/surface/process". they are done in any way the compositor sees fit internally to police (be .so loadable modules, or have to authenticate vwith a special access key they only get via stdin or env var or something, or they even connect via a special separate socket/connection - whatever they compositor/display manager deems fit). these are indeed security things as they involve authetication of a user or their input (which may contain things like passwords and identifying info). > For example not allowing an application to overlap a login/password > request windows is very valuable from a security point of view (as a > window can always be created transparent). > > The challenge is to offer a generic model which works for native and > TML5 Apps. > > Regards > > -- > Dominig ar Foll > Senior Software Architect > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev > -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev
