technical spec for the workstation up for review

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Feb 20 15:14:47 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:28:10AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
> This model is very simply (just 2 modes) and it gives our users some extra security when
> connecting their laptops in public places, including protecting them from themselves in 
> terms of accidentally sharing their private photos and videos on a public network.
> It should also be quite unobtrusive.

The point is that applications can't depend on this behaviour, because 
there's no standardised API for managing it. That's not too much of a 
problem for packaging things inside Fedora, but it's somewhat 
problematic for independently packaged apps.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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