Re: Welcome to the safety-list

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

Thanks for sending this out Federico!

I've created a bug[1] to track my issue[2] from this morning.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738552
[2] https://twitter.com/hergertme/status/522126539895222272

-- Christian


On 10/14/2014 03:48 PM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 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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