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[Chad Germann <cgermann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent idea, We have in house a control panel we wrote for gnome That
works with these settings as well as a front end for the Bastille hardening
script fail2ban, chkrootkit and clamAV this could passably be modified and
submitted for inclusion into Ubuntu.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Florian Diesch <diesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> If we use GSettings to store the settings administrators can just use
> the usual dconf locks as described in
> http://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/3.6/lockdown.html.en
>
>
>
> Am Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:13:22 -0800
> schrieb Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >
> > Yes, it would make sense for this to be manageable by administrators
> > at the system and network level, patches welcome.
> >
> > On 02/18/2013 02:09 PM, Chad Germann wrote:
> > > Good idea but one thing is missing Will there be a way for this Opt
> > > out to be added to a group policy that could be locked by an
> > > administrator such as in the Privacy control center?
> > >
> > > I could see this being an issue for workstations that are used to
> > > handle sensitive information in the form of National security or
> > > trade secret
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > <mailto:vibhavp@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I couldnt have thought of a better solution. +1!
> > >
> > >     On Feb 17, 2013 9:53 PM, "Mark Shuttleworth" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >     <mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >         Here's how we are going to handle this:
> > >
> > >          * We will make a very bold, clear way for you to turn on
> > > and off network queries across ALL scopes for any given session in
> > > the dash.
> > >         Think about this like the 'anonymous' mode in your browser.
> > >         Toggle it,
> > >         right there in the Dash, and you are totally certain you are
> > >         not sending
> > >         network traffic. We will aim to enforce this at the kernel
> > >         level, hence
> > >         the CC to Jamie S who leads our security team.
> > >
> > >          * We will have the ability to configure the Home screen,
> > >         including
> > >         choice of scopes, and the behaviour of individual scopes.
> > >
> > >          * Legal notices will all be in one place, in the 'About
> > >         Ubuntu' part of
> > >         the UX, and visible in the install experience too.
> > >
> > >         Mark
> > >
> > >
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