On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Schmidt András wrote:
In my opinion there is nothing that the root account can protect on
a single user handheld device.
Phones are normally used single user.
When an application gets the rights for that user then it can access
all personal information and all network resources (Wifi, GSM
network). What else remains? What resource would you protect with
the root account?
If this is a sincere question, I'd really encourage you to give the
OLPC bitfrost spec a read:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost
Unfortunately, the conclusion you've drawn is completely wrong. I'm
very interested in the OLPC Bitfrost work - I think it has application
in the wider sphere of Linux implementations, and the OpenMoko
environment is a classic case.
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