Maemo security
At the Maemo Summit 2009, Nokia shared a great deal of information about the security mechanisms that would be available and/or mandated in upcoming platforms.
- Slides
- Video (TBC)
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 discussion page and once they've been refined and consolidated, we'll add them onto this page.
Some examples:
Is there a diagram showing the security framework and components?
See slide #??? --Jaffa 11:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
What is "Open Mode" and can it be revoked remotely?
"Open" mode is when an unsigned kernel has been booted. Disabling it remotely would, presumably, require a change to the bootloader. See slide #??? --Jaffa 11:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)