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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
On Mi, 2013-04-03 at 08:34 -0300, Cláudio Sampaio wrote:
> I also have one general question.
> 
> 
> Isn't Ubuntu Touch going to present a "capabilities" layer, much like
> that of Android or Blackberry, that says what the application can/will
> do? "Acess the network", "store files", "read the SMS", "change the
> configuration" and so on. Like a dumbed-down version of AppArmor or
> SELinux. Android currently shows this to the user, but he is not able
> to block particular capabilities of the application and if Ubuntu
> Touch is able to allow it, it would be a darned good differential.
i think the plan is to actually use apparmor (not dumbed down) ...
someone from the security team may correct me here though :)

ciao
	oli

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