[cap-talk] A couple notes on Palm webOS security

[Trey Boudreau]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:06:32AM -0400, Steve Witham wrote:
> 
> These are from my ph file of random info, sorry for the format.
> webOS apps are basically Javascript web pages running in a
> specialized browser.
> 
> >Both Contacts and Calendar will allow applications to add
> >information that will get merged into an integrated view.
> >They don't allow applications to read, delete or update
> >any data that wasn't created by the same application.
> 
> Reading between the lines it sounds like each app may have a
> Linux user id.
> 
Android works this way.  Each app gets a unique user ID (and group ID, I
think).  Palm drew upon Google Android (and Apple iPhone) engineers when
staffing up for the Pre, so a user-per-app for webOS would have
precedence within the team.

-- Trey