Re: Sandboxing die.die.die
Re: Sandboxing die.die.die
- Subject: Re: Sandboxing die.die.die
- From: Jayson Adams <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:29:56 -0700
On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> But then, I haven't tried sandboxing yet. It sounds almost like some exquisite form of BDSM: taking away all of your freedom and then making you beg to get little bits back. Does it come with safe-words?
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> Irrespective of everything else, this is indeed the model for sandboxing. Because "you" is not normally synonymous with "the user", and the industry has awoken to the reality that the user can not trust your motives to be pure. Because in the face of a successful attack, "you" might not be the author of the executing code either.
Ah, that explains why all of Apple's apps are sandboxed Riiiiight.
__jayson
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