I wonder if there is a way, sane and friendly way, to prove that a piece of software is only accessing whatever it claims it will access.
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Like network addresses or file system access. I want to be able to claim in my software that it only touches this or that file and I can prove it
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creator of textlogreplied to@avioliprofilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.:I believe the sanest and friendliest way would be for it to be open-source so it can be audited.
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creator of textlog:I know, and that's totally fine, but it is not always friendly. I guess an agent can "audit" it.
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creator of textlogreplied to@avioliprofilefollowProgrammer by day and night. Lover of art. Mixing art and programming is the dream.:Just the fact that it can be audited plus your word is enough. Noone would need to look any further, because they could if they had to.
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creator of textlog:I think a trusted piece of software such as your operating system should be in charge of managing permissions. For example, I believe with Wayland on gnome you no longer need to promise you aren't secretly taking screenshots of the whole monitor and shipping it somewhere because to do that Wayland requires you to get user permission.