[OLPC Security] Seamless Lessons & Security (commentary)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Jul 7 18:27:08 EDT 2008


Am 07.07.2008 um 23:31 schrieb Martin Dengler:

> On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 05:03:58PM -0400, Ivan Krsti�? wrote:
>> On Jul 7, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
>>> Is that good enough?  I think it would work fine for paranoid
>>> security geeks,
>>> but what about school children?
>>
>> It's good enough because the purpose of the dialog is not to protect,
>> but to inform.
>
> I respectfully disagree that the dialog/notification can achieve that
> goal.

The goal is to prevent an activity from automatically launching  
another activity without user interaction. A system-provided dialog or  
menu does that just fine.

- Bert -




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