[tbb-dev] So, about the Linux sandbox in the long term?

Tue May 30 18:51:38 UTC 2017

Tom Ritter:
> On 30 May 2017 at 13:22, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>> As for Android apps updating their own code, it is possible, and it is
>> occasionally done.
> 
> Can it be prevented?

Android now sets the /data and /sdcard partitions so that code cannot be
executed from them.  Those are the only places that apps have permission
to write.  So apps cannot download and store code.  The only option is
to download code and keep it in RAM.

.hc

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