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+Introduction
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+This repository contains various AppArmor profiles, which aim is to confine linux applications. This
+work started a few years ago, but still some of the profiles should be considered experimental,
+though most of them work well, at least on my system (Xserver/Openbox setup). Whether any of the
+profiles will work on your linux, it depends. Basically the software you use matters a lot, for
+instance, major desktop environments (KDE/GNOME) are known to cause troubles, and additional rules
+probably will be required to make an app work under such DE. Probably many profiles are also
+missing some rules because I'm not able to check and test every app in its every detail -- it
+simply takes a lot of time.
+
+The profile rules basically try to map files that a certain application wants to use. Not all the
+files are required for an app to make it work, and in some cases giving access to certain files can
+be dangerous for both security and privacy. I'm making the file maps just to know how an app works
+(what files it tries to use), and whether (or not) it makes some suspicious actions by trying to
+read or write exotic locations. With AppArmor everything is clear what apps are trying to do in the
+system. When you know what files are used, you can try to deny those you think that can be blocked,
+and at some point you get a more strict profiles which provide a better security and privacy, but
+of course it will take time.