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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.

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  1. 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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  2. 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 GNious · · Score: 3, Funny

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

      You just made me consider throwing my Jolla out.

  3. 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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      Watch this Heartland Institute video