Hi, On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Thom Jamston <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Everybody! > > Is there any kind of sand-boxing planned for Meego? > So that i can run an third party closed source > application without being afraid that someone gets > access to all my contacts, et cetera? > As far as I've heard there's something in those lines planned for Maemo 6 which effectively *could* mean MeeGo. It seems to be part of the security model being developed (in work). There was a talk at FOSDEM 2010 by a person from Nokia talking about Maemo 6. Luckily there's a video (which is how I heard about the things). You can get it from: http://video.fosdem.org/2010/maintracks/maemo.xvid.avi Some of the mirrors have problems for me when I tried to download, so try a few times at http://video.fosdem.org/2010/ if you run into trouble. > > On my desktop machine, I have an separate user for > close source applications (NOT APPS). > On my main user, all applications are open source. > > On Android there is automatically a separate user > for each application, that can request additional > access on install time. > > Is there anything planned in Meego? > And, what is the rest here thinking? > Useless or interesting? > > And: Does anyone of you have an idea on how to > protect users privacy, without killing multi user > capabilities? (like it is in Android) > My take honestly is that it's too early to speculate on the MeeGo security model at this point. Although what we know is from the work in progress for Maemo 6, we can't assume that any of that will make into MeeGo. Since Moblin parts are going to be involved more IMHO in this area, it might be totally different. But knowing the fact that MeeGo is going to be in many different device classes, I guess it's safe to assume that there will be some sort of security model addressing the concerns you brought up in your mail. The one (work in progress) presented at FOSDEM seem to have some solid groundwork. Let's see what comes out on Day 1 and work from there. :) Hope this helps. -- Gaveen Prabhasara
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