Am Mittwoch, den 10.11.2010, 07:38 +0000 schrieb [email protected]: > Hello all, > I've a question. I'm currently looking at opimd code with a view to > perhaps rewriting it in vala. That, as far as I know, was always on the list > of things to do and as an education to myself I thought it might be a usefull > exercise. I mean it's not critical as opimd is there and works well so it's a > handy starter exercise. > > Anyhow whilst mulling over things in my head I remebered that in recent weeks > Android was hit by the shocking revelation that some installed apps were > transmitting Personal Data to remote parties. Then there was the further > shocking info that the iPhone suffers from the same problem. > > I'm thinking that there ain't a whole pile you can do to secure PIM data, > especially in an Open Source, implementation. That's what I'm thinking and > I'll readily admit that I don't know squat about securing data. It seems to > me > that the first step to securing the data is saying that only the SHR supplied > apps can access this data. That's not really good for choice which is one of > the mail advantages of Open Systems. Even if you said that only SHR supplied > apps could access this info if the apps source is readily available then > you've achieved nothing. > > I've admitted that I know squat but is there anybody who can offer a clever > idea which might be used to secure PIM data. I'm just curious. > > And don't mention that the phone runs as root at present so it ain't the most > secure. That's another discussion that I know squat about. In the ideal world > where the phone did not run as root how would you secure PIM. I suppose that > might well be the answer different user id's. Hmm only user "pim" or group > "pim" can read pim data. Still that probably curtails third party developers > writing a really cool app. They'll have to be able to access PIM. > > Catch 22 you either have an open system that allows third party apps or you > have secure data. > _______________________________________________ > Shr-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
Moin, porting opimd to vala should be happen during the transisition to gdbus, which is mandatory for opimd. opimd uses tuples/hashtables in value, which cannot be de-/serialized with current glib value implementation. Regards, Frederik
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