[OLPC Security] Transparent security by user interactions

Tim Flavin tim.flavin at gmail.com
Sat Oct 7 20:05:19 EDT 2006


On 10/7/06, Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > The main idea is that by default programs can't do anything dangerous,
> > and the user transparently gives them access to do their needed work as
> > part of the user interface.
>
> Yes, this is (approximately) the approach I'm taking.

I was under the impression from an earlier thread that SELinux was
going to be used to prevent programs that use the network from
infecting the system.

Are you going to going to use something different?

Also there was some talk about a security architecture paper.  Does
this exist yet.

Tim Flavin


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