Welcome to the Safety and Privacy mailing list! Now that a good bunch of people are subscribed, I think we have a proper introduction :) This is the mailing list for the Safety and Privacy Team. As is usual with GNOME teams, this one doesn't have hard boundaries --- if you want to participate, just do; you don't need to ask for membership or anything. Our wiki page is here: https://wiki.gnome.org/SafetyTeam We have a number of tasks. Help is very welcome! * HTTPS everywhere. Elad Alfassa has been looking into GNOME applications which do plain HTTP requests. One particularly problematic one is gnome-weather, as there is no HTTPS-ized source of weather information that we can use. See the bug linked from the wiki for the details. * Help out the gnome-os people with sandboxed apps. Alex Larsson has been looking into creating GNOME runtimes, and into how to store/distribute apps: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-os-list/2014-October/msg00000.html * As part of sandboxing, figure out how to actually keep applications from accessing all of the user's data. Ubuntu Phone already does this, I think, so it would be good to look at its implementation. There is also prior art with things like LXC and Docker. * Think of what sort of Service APIs we will need. The "I need a picture from the user's photos" service, for example. * Metadata scrubbers, so that the user can be made aware of what (meta)data is not obviously contained in files to be shared. For example, geolocation data in photos. * Bugs in general. Just today, Christian Hergert tweeted that he saw his bank's website briefly when deactivating the screensaver - some GPU texture didn't get cleared. Things like that. Feel free to start the discussion, and welcome! Federico
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