Re: preparing for the use of the Privacy campaign funds

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Jeff Fortin <nekohayo gmail com> wrote:
...
> Therefore, to anyone reading this, in light of the formation of the
> Safety Team and the safety/privacy BoF session that occurred at GUADEC,
> it would help tremendously if you (as individuals and as a team) would
> start coming up with a specific action plan and make a proposal to the
> board. You are probably better positioned than us to focus on this
> particular task.
...

I've been involved in various discussions about this, and I know that
there is no shortage of ideas (some are documented here [1], although
I know there were many more). I think the question is which idea is
most viable for the amount of money we have to spend, and who might be
available for those types of contracts.

> From a design point of view, there are two things that I would
particularly like to see.

1. Infrastructure to allow applications to independently, and securely
store passwords. Stef outlined a plan for this during his 2013 GUADEC
presentation ([2], see from slide 37 onwards). It is something that is
necessary for application sandboxing, and I believe would be more
consistent with user expectations.

2. "Factory Reset" - an option to wipe a device of all files and
settings, and return it to a blank state (or as blank as we can get
it). Very useful for privacy.

Allan

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/PrivacyCampaign2013
[2] http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/more-secure-with-less-security