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Jolla Partners With SSH To Create Sailfish Secure 30

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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Jolla Partners With SSH To Create Sailfish Secure

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  • that's the way to go (Score:5, Interesting)

    by stooo ( 2202012 ) on Monday March 02, 2015 @12:43PM (#49165451) Homepage

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

    • 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,

  • Good news (Score:5, Informative)

    by fph il quozientatore ( 971015 ) on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:07PM (#49165633)
    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.
    • Hey whaday know, it does have git. I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the tip.

    • by GNious ( 953874 ) on Monday March 02, 2015 @02:18PM (#49166243)

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

      You just made me consider throwing my Jolla out.

    • 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!

  • Open source it (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ssam ( 2723487 ) on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:07PM (#49165635)

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

    • Re:Open source it (Score:4, Informative)

      by Eunuchswear ( 210685 ) on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:42PM (#49165925) Journal

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

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