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[Jelmer Prins <justcarakas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It doesn’t change the fact that when you have a document in de documents folder and you pen it with an app it is copied to the local files of the app instead of editing that file on its current location.
Or has that been fixed already ?

greetz
carakas

> On 17 Sep 2015, at 13:14, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2015, 13:05 +0200 schrieb chg 1:
>> I'd like to have some documents (in PDF, txt...) with keys and private
>> things.
>> If I open them with Document Viewer, PdfjsViewer, edit... then they
>> appear in diferent places and I fear they could be read by someone who
>> reached the phone or even through the net.
> 
> like all other ubuntu installs the phone follows the policy of "no open
> ports by default". if you didnt enable anything explicitly yourself,
> tinkered with the readonly state or installed any deb packages or
> scripts, there will be no way for someone to "access the phone (or your
> data) from the net" 
> 
> applications themselves can not access any space on the filesystem
> outside of their execution environment without your knowledge either.
> the only way for them to do that is the content-hub which pops up the
> "open with" dialog, so even a malicious app would first have to ask you
> to import the document into its filesystem space.
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 
> 
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