[SailfishDevel] community thoughts on app security

[Sven Putze]

Hi Artem and all,

> 
> 2) Sandboxes are limiting, but matter. It is way more difficult to freeze to death or misuse iPhone than Android. That probably goes against Mer/Sailfish philosophy though. 
> 
But a sandbox must not be a bad thing per se. We could learn a lot from the app bundle file structure from the Apple universe (OSX and iOS). For those who fear sandboxes like the devil: it should be possible to get more permissions on the device, via policy, manifest whatever you want to call it. This way a SailfishOS device could benefit from the security, a sandbox provides as a default but developers and users would not be limited to it.
This also raises questions regarding filesystem access, there is already another thread about that topic.
And there are a lot of ways to implement such a sandbox.

BR.
Sven