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Ubuntu Permission Prompting - John Johansen, Canonical
Thursday June 26, 2025 11:55am - 12:25pm MDT
Room BBB 3G+3H
Ubuntu 24.10 introduced permissions prompting as a an experimental feature to improve security and confidentiality for the Linux desktop. Traditionally Linux desktop applications have not been designed to be sandboxed and separated like android or iOS applications, making them difficult to isolate within the desktop environment. While applications written to support portals can be sandboxed within the modern desktop there are many applications that have not been updated to support them. This presentation will discuss and dive into what Ubuntu is doing to bring confinement and data confidentiality to traditional and legacy applications.
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John Johansen

Security Engineer, Canonical
John Johansen began working with open source software in the late 80s and began playing with Linux in 93. He completed a masters in mathematics at the University of Waterloo and the began working for Immunix doing compiler hardening, and then AppArmor. After Immunix was acquired by... Read More →
Thursday June 26, 2025 11:55am - 12:25pm MDT
Room BBB 3G+3H
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