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[Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres <macastiblancot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver,

Keep in mind the 'power user' concept.

Like I said before, as a developer I request by default a config for my
app. But If and advanced user wants to change it, it can do all the things
I said before.

Cheers,
Miguel


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
> On Mi, 2013-03-27 at 16:16 +0000, Sam Bull wrote:
> > 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.
>
> i'm not sure my mother would understand such a concept or get along with
> a gazillion of buttons and options for having to set up security
> policies ... would yours ?
>
> i would really just go with a guest user that only has access to the
> core apps shipped and can only make emergency calls.
>
> if you want to access your personal data and additional installed apps
> you switch users which automatically unlocks your keyring and access to
> all your data and your personalized user profile (someone mentioned
> wallpapers and icons) ... locking the phone should only happen through
> either actively pressing the lock button or through a display timeout
> after which you would be back in the guest account.
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
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