[guardian-dev] Whats better than antivirus? Whitelisting!

Wed Apr 17 13:59:18 EDT 2013

The free software version of this idea is the official package repository.
Its a giant whitelist of trusted software. :)

apt-get install notmalware

.hc

On 04/17/2013 01:47 PM, Cooper Quintin wrote:
> Apparently McAfee is releasing some kernel level app whitelisting thing
> for Android devices.  Has anyone heard anything about this yet?  It
> seems like a really, really good idea, I only wish that McAfee weren't
> the ones doing it.  What are the potential problems with something like
> this, other than placing one's trust in McAfee?  Has anyone used it yet?
>  Any thoughts on how difficult it would be to make an open source
> version of this?
> 