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[Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 14:02 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> if you want to access personal user data you would "unlock" you data and
> app access for your personalised account, but by default you are able to
> make full use of the system without the need to lock/unlock anything.

This is exactly what I have on the desktop, see:
http://blog.sambull.org/security-design

What I'm proposing on the phone is basically the same, except the
keyring would automatically relock after a period of time or when the
screen is turned off. We can't have it unlocked just once, when it is
quite common for people to leave their phone on for days or weeks at a
time.

So, it locks certain apps or actions. To access these, you must unlock
the keyring, but having unlocked it once, you can then access any other
locked feature/data without a password until the keyring relocks.

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