could you add this feature or discuss it at 13.04 Developer Summit?

[Ma Xiaojun]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Nicolas Michel
<be.nicolas.michel at gmail.com> wrote:
> In consequence, all applications that you install from the Ubuntu Software
> center are considered "safe" by the distribution maintainers because they or
> others members of the open-source community already reviewed the source
> code. This is why you always should prefer installing app from the ubuntu
> software center than from the net directly except if you know what you're
> doing.
I think Ubuntu software center also features non-open source stuff now.
http://developer.ubuntu.com/publish/
The trust model is more like Apple's app store now.
The developers of apps may be considered as untrusted.
But the apps have gone through the review a (hopefully) trusted company.

> Other argument against the app firewall level with popus: let the user the
> possibility to easily configure the security of its computer is only usefull
> when the user knows what he's really doing and all consequences. Most people
> will click on "yes" on every popup that appears without asking themselves
> the consequences of that click.
> Final argument against : I hate popups :)
All true, so the origin poster need a logger.