| Title | Mozilla Adding Granular App Permissions to Firefox OS | |
| Date | Monday September 01 2014, @02:11PM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the better-than-android's-methods dept. | ||
Threatpost reports
Firefox OS … includes many of the security and privacy features that Mozilla has built into the Firefox browser over the years, namely support for Do Not Track.
One of the features of Firefox OS is an app permission function that enables users to decide what behaviors they want to allow for a given app. So a user will get a prompt when an app is attempting to perform a certain kind of action and then decide whether to allow it.
"The security model of Firefox OS is based on contextual prompts. So for APIs that are understandable and human meaningful like geolocation, using the camera or recording audio the OS will prompt the user. You can save & remember these choices and later revisit them in the Settings app under 'App Permissions'. You may set them to Allow, Prompt, or Deny," said Frederik Braun, a Mozilla security engineer.
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"Starting with Firefox [OS] 2.1, you may activate the developer settings and tick the checkbox near 'Verbose App Permissions'. The typical list in the Settings app will then show you all the permissions an app has and allows you to set them to Allow, Prompt or Deny. This feature, however, only targets the Privileged apps. These are apps that come through the Marketplace. For now, we can not revoke permissions for the built-in apps (the permission set() call throws)," Braun said.
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