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Jolla Partners With SSH To Create Sailfish Secure

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

First time accepted submitter muckracer writes Finnish mobile company Jolla will be working with Finland's SSH Communications to offer another version of its SailfishOS platform with stronger security credentials. The partnership was announced today at Jolla's press conference in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress trade show. SSH will be providing comms encryption and key management to Sailfish Secure.

14 of 30 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Salespitch: More False Promises from CEOs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CEOs could care less about your security.

    Really?

    How much less could the care? Can it be quantified?

  2. that's the way to go by stooo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Security in mobile is as bad as in the PC worls 20 years ago.
    Jolla is on the right track !

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    1. Re:that's the way to go by balaband · · Score: 2

      I agree.

      How much CPUs/RAM/megapixels do you really need in a phone? How much apps do you actually use? The market is quickly becoming saturated.

      But the phone that takes security seriously? I see a nice piece of pie in the business market that Blackberry is losing with each day, and Apple and Google will not be able to fill,

  3. Good news by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jolla phone user here. The killer feature for me, besides the ability to run Android apps, is the security aspect (none of the Big Three mobile OS makers gets my data). (And, on top of it, I can brag "my mobile phone arrived with vim and git preinstalled".) I am pretty satisfied with the OS as it is, but it could use a few more quality-of-life improvements and native features (the mail app mainly). This new project is good news, because it will help them grow, gain popularity and find a niche to fill in the mobile OS market, but I hope this won't take resources away from the regular development.

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    1. Re:Good news by Eunuchswear · · Score: 1

      Hey whaday know, it does have git. I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the tip.

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    2. Re:Good news by GNious · · Score: 3, Funny

      I can brag "my mobile phone arrived with vim preinstalled".

      You just made me consider throwing my Jolla out.

    3. Re:Good news by water-and-sewer · · Score: 1

      This is great news. I'd be thrilled to support something that breaks the current duopoly in smartphone OSes. And I don't have high hopes for Mozilla's Firefox OS - I figure, if that team can't make sense of their browser, they don't belong in the OS business, much less the smartphone OS business, as far as I'm concerned.

      Go Jolla, you punky bastard, you!

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    4. Re:Good news by m4rtink · · Score: 2

      Hey whaday know, it does have git. I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the tip.

      The built in backup software (called vault, source code here: https://github.com/nemomobile/...) is based on git, that's why it is installed. :)

  4. Open source it by ssam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll believe that Jolla is more secure when they release the source code.

    1. Re: Open source it by ssam · · Score: 3, Informative

      Thanks, great examples. Heartbleed was found because by a company (google) who wanted to audit the code they were using. Because openSSL is opensource they were able to do that.

    2. Re:Open source it by Eunuchswear · · Score: 4, Informative

      Not all of it is open, but you can find links to a lot of it at https://together.jolla.com/que...

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    3. Re: Open source it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      That's the GP's point. It wasn't you or any other average user who found the OpenSSL bugs. It was researchers working for large companies. Large companies often have enough clout and resources to license the source code to any software they use, even if it isn't open sourced.

    4. Re: Open source it by drinkypoo · · Score: 2

      That's the GP's point. It wasn't you or any other average user who found the OpenSSL bugs. It was researchers working for large companies.

      Right, and the point of the person to whom you were replying is that it actually happened, and was possible. Unlike with closed source, where it couldn't have happened at all.

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    5. Re: Open source it by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      I'll quote it for you, since you seem to have some sort of a disability that prevents you from finding in on your own:

      Oh no, I did read it already. You seem to have a disability that leads you to assign meaning to things which have none. See, there's also plenty of cases where they can't license the source code. For example, Google won't be finding bugs in Microsoft's code any time soon, unless it's something they've open sourced. Which they've been doing lately. Which suggests that even Microsoft is beginning to get what you still can't comprehend. Disability, indeed.

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