Application authorisations

[Ross Burton]

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 11:01 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> FWIW, I don't think it's really worth the effort to do all this for
> the normal Linux Desktop. Everything in your desktop session pretty
> much runs in the same security context and conventional wisdom says
> something to the effect that you are screwed if you have hostile code
> in your session _anyway_. I mean, if I was a hostile program running
> in your session I wouldn't worry too much about your location - I'd be
> much more interested in the contents of ~/.mozilla instead :-) 

Agreed.  GeoClue just needs a way of saying "[some program] wants your
location [sure] [no way]", anything else is overkill.

Ross (part-time GeoClue "maintainer")
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