[aklug] Modular security?

My android phone has this interesting security model in which, just before installing an application, you are told which components of you phone's security (e.g., SD Card, Internet Access, GPS information) that the application is going to be granted access to. If you think that the app is asking for more privileges than it needs, you just don't install the app.

I am curious if that kind of approach to application security had ever been explored in a Linux context, and how you might go about setting it up if you wanted it. (D-Bus? SetUID? New kernel modules?)

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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
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