Am I the only one who sees the irony in it being a scandal for free software to fail to adequately restrict freedom? I just can't imagine an iPhone style restrictions model ever gaining momentum in open source. As much of a prize an App Store would be, it's just too at odds with the culture. I think what makes more sense for open source is to have better tools for monitoring what it's doing. The behavior of some of these programs with things like dns is like the hunger games and you can't trust the system to save you with a top-down permissions model when the system itself is the problem.