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Fuchsia's capabilities mechanism are strictly superior. There has been, over various android version, many fixes to "leaks" of information due to the SELinux co
by roblabla 5y ago
Fuchsia's capabilities mechanism are strictly superior. There has been, over various android version, many fixes to "leaks" of information due to the SELinux configuration not being comprehensive enough, and linux being default open when it comes to capabilities. In contrast, Fuchsia is default closed, so if you don't ask for the permission to do something, you can't.
I distinctly remember ad companies using various tricks like reading /proc and the like to try and get information about what applications are running on a phone and what servers they are communicating with without asking for perms (it's fixed now, but it used to be a thing years ago). This is the kind of stuff that fuchsia should, in theory, prevent.
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