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Security on desktop OSes is still much worse, with even sandboxing being fairly rare.
by lucian1900 10y ago
Security on desktop OSes is still much worse, with even sandboxing being fairly rare.
- simonh 10y agoOh come on. The virus situation on Windows XP was appalling. The system was wide open. It's the primary reason I mainly switched to the Mac in 2006. Sane security was the one truly good thing that's come out of the post-XP era of MS operating systems.
- lucian1900 10y agoDesktop OSes still run every app as the user, which gives them access to everything useful by default. Mobile OSes differ in this respect since they sandbox by default.