On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Paul Theriault <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2. Vulnerabilities in apps affect ALL users of FxOS
> The combination of no-installation and deep-linking into apps creates has a
> multiplicative effect for risk for our users. Currently if an attacker finds
> a security bug in an application on marketplace, that bug only affects the
> users that have chosen to install it. Without installation, this bug affects
> ALL FxOS devices.
>
> This is the one that scares me the most TBH. Especially when you couple it
> with remembered permissions.

We can certainly make it impossible to remember permissions to signed
APIs unless the user has "bookmarked to homescreen" the signed
content.

/ Jonas
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