Maemo security

At the Maemo2009 Summit Nokia shared a great deal of information about the security mechanisms that would be available and/or mandated in upcoming platforms.

The concepts outlined include well established favourites in the OSS world (like privilege management) as well as some that are rather less well regarded - such as relatives of the Trusted Computing Platform and DRM.

Inevitably there will be a significant amount of interest and concern about how this affects the open nature of the Maemo platform.

This page is intended to capture community questions (and, eventually I hope, Nokia's answers) about these issues.

Initially please add questions to the Talk:MaemoSecurity discussion page and once they've been refined and consolidated, we'll add them onto this page.

Some examples: