security

( Note: Project technology is not yet part of Moblin distribution ) Certain services on the Moblin based devices will need to control access. Typical reasons a device might need control access include:

1. The device supports critical services and needs to make sure that only select few applications have access to it.
2. Applications and services need to protect access to user privacy sensitive data. For example, the GPS managing service should not provide access to current location information to every application on the platform. Content manager should protect access to all user data and allow access to only policy specified applications.

Note: Project technology is not yet part of the Moblin distribution This project makes sure that a compromised application cannot cause damage to the rest of the platform. An attacker may can not use one vulnerable application as a spring box for attacking the rest of the device. It also hides information/data associated with applications from the rest of the applications and restricts access to only the parts of the system that an application needs to do its particular function.

( Note: Project technology is not yet part of Moblin distribution ) This project provides the security infrastructure for the Moblin. The security architecture for Moblin will be flexible so that it can be adapted to different verticals targeted by Moblin project.