On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 16:45:30 +0000 "Schaufler, Casey" <[email protected]> said:
i'd say there is an objective thing to tizen (at least for tizen 3 on)... smack allows us to have multiple users AND application containering (via smack) into their own "effective" uid. android re-used uid's for each app "container" so we lost multi-user... unless android goes using groups for users... but then you can have users and not groups... :) tizen has 1 EXTRA layer of containering for apps vs android. that allows more control and still a familiar user model for developers, system builders, etc. > Tizen is taking security very seriously. We are using the Smack Linux > Security Module to provide mandatory access control. We are taking a very > aggressive stance with regard to keeping system services protected. There is > unlikely to be a hardened version of Tizen simply because we are creating a > hard system by design. It is our intention that Tizen will be more secure > than the alternatives, even those that have been augmented to meet special > needs. There will always be debates about which security scheme is best and > where the line between security and user experience should be drawn. There > isn't an objective security measure, so there will be a component of personal > judgment in any comparison. By putting security into the initial architecture > we believe that Tizen will compare well with any other system in the > marketplace. > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sven Ruin Sent: Monday, > January 06, 2014 9:45 PM To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [Tizen General] Tizen security > > To the Tizen community, > > As you may know, some find it hard to see what Tizen has to recommend over > existing products. I'm not yet familiar with Tizen, but think one of the most > important advantages that Tizen could hopefully bring is a higher level of > security. Therefore I wanted to ask if Tizen will really be much more secure > than other alternatives, in particular Android, even if Tizen will one day > capture a large market share? > > For background information, see for example F-Secure's Mobile Threat Report > Q3 2013 on http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/whitepapers/reports. > > Best regards, > > Sven Ruin -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
