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Re: Is There a Visor Security Model?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James H. Cloos Jr.)
Wed Sep 22 15:00:11 1999

To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>,
        cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
        Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>
From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
In-Reply-To: Bill Frantz's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:23:45 -0700"
Date: 22 Sep 1999 13:33:39 -0500
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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com> writes:

Bill> The other solution is to run you Palm in "system high" mode,
Bill> where all applications are trusted.  (Since the only application
Bill> I have added to my Palm is "Life", I could easily run it that
Bill> way.  Now all I have to do is gain trust in the built in
Bill> applications.)

IIRC, the SDK has the src for all of the builtin apps, so gaining that
trust should, at least, only be a matter of work, not of negotiation.

- -JimC
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