Hi guys, Just to be clear QtContacts is not available for confined apps. The only way to retrieve contacts in a confined app is using content-hub API. This will return a vcard file with all contact information including the avatar image.
BR On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Roman Shchekin <[email protected]> wrote: >> For some people contacts is a a very personal/private data., and they >> do not want applications reading, sharing, downloading, uploading it. > > > It is not about security - it is about pain for developers. Malefactor will > anyway find the way to stole contacts and etc. once you installed his app. > So I think that Ubuntu Phone should stop trying to limit all of developer > features. Just remeber old N9 - all was fine without special policies. > > 2015-10-02 21:31 GMT+03:00 Stefano Verzegnassi <[email protected]>: >> >> >> 2015-10-02 19:16 GMT+02:00 Roman Shchekin <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Qt contacts is limited? Why? >> >> >> Suppose that there's a malicious app in the store that allows you to >> download music from the web. >> As far as I understand, this app could be able to secretely read all the >> email addresses of your contacts and send them on the net for spamming. >> >> In this regards, I'd like to see some kind of "smart" click-review tool >> when an application is uploaded into the store. >> I mean, instead of having a set of "reserved" or "common" AppArmor >> policies, each policy has a weighted score. >> The click-review tool should check for a combination of these policies, in >> order to define more precisely how much dangerous an app could be. >> >> For example, an app that has "networking" and "content_exchange" policies >> could be potentially more dangerous than an app that has just a "read_path" >> permission (which currently is not allowed) for "/proc/meminfo" (e.g. a task >> manager). >> Apps that have read-only access to user's Pictures folder, but has no >> access to the net (e.g. a third-party image viewer or an image editor), >> could be somehow considered safe instead. >> >> I may have written dumb things, but I'd like to hear if there's any plan >> for having some less restricted policies in Ubuntu (Touch) and/or some >> whitelisted paths under certain conditions. > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
