On 10/13/2016 04:53 PM, Eduardo Aguirre wrote:
> Thank you so much for all your help!
> 
> Any recommended documentation about SE for Android, LSMs implemented in
> Android and maybe an in-depth view of Android security?
> I have already read the official documentation and the "Android security
> internals book" but I was wondering if there is another good source of
> information.

The list of links from
https://source.android.com/security/selinux/#supporting_documentation
is a good starting point.

> 
> El jue., 13 oct. 2016 a las 11:25, Stephen Smalley (<s...@tycho.nsa.gov
> <mailto:s...@tycho.nsa.gov>>) escribió:
> 
>     On 10/13/2016 11:20 AM, Eduardo Aguirre wrote:
>     > Do you know why the MMAC mechanisms proposed in SEAndroid weren't
>     > adopted?  I have also heard of something called "Intent firewall" that
>     > has not been integrated to Android(as far as I know).
> 
>     Not entirely sure why (we didn't get feedback), but recent versions of
>     Android do incorporate a runtime permissions model (built on top of
>     AppOps) and also include various enterprise-focused features.
> 
>     Last I looked, Intent Firewall was still part of Android, but not
>     something that can be configured by anyone other than the OEM (aside
>     from using custom ROMs).  Some information about Intent Firewall is
>     available here:
>     http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/android/IntentFirewall/
> 
>     > El jue., 13 oct. 2016 a las 10:00, Stephen Smalley
>     (<s...@tycho.nsa.gov <mailto:s...@tycho.nsa.gov>
>     > <mailto:s...@tycho.nsa.gov <mailto:s...@tycho.nsa.gov>>>) escribió:
>     >
>     >     On 10/13/2016 10:33 AM, Eduardo Aguirre wrote:
>     >     > Could a policy in SEAndroid ensure confidentality and privacy?:
>     >     >
>     >     > Restrict emails to some domains, restrict messages from some
>     contacts,
>     >     > or even modify some rules when location changes?
>     >     >
>     >     > I think nothing like this has been implemented, but I also
>     think that
>     >     > SEAndroid could be used to do something like that (maybe some
>     >     > modifications are needed?)
>     >
>     >     The concepts you are describing would be implemented at the
>     middleware
>     >     or, in some cases, even the application layer.  While the SE
>     for Android
>     >     project did experiment with several middleware mandatory
>     access control
>     >     mechanisms (MMAC), none of those were ever adopted into the
>     Android Open
>     >     Source Project; only the SELinux support was.
>     >
> 

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