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I don't understand. Most things this article pretends are simply wrong : every application has NOT access to every file on a Linux or Mac OS X computer; Several
by wazoox 16y ago
I don't understand. Most things this article pretends are simply wrong : every application has NOT access to every file on a Linux or Mac OS X computer; Several people DO share the same computer using different accounts; obviously the writer's POV is distorted by her strange obsession towards virtualization and a (faked?) complete misunderstanding of the modern OSes security model.
I would like to be able to downvote this stupid rant :)
- Lagged2Death 16y agoThe article doesn't make the statement you're negating. The article points out (and as far as I understand, it's quite right) that a process run in a particular user's context generally has full control of all files associated with that user's context.
- wazoox 16y agoIndeed, and apparently this makes sense with applications as they are today. Running each app in its own container, virtualisation-style, wouldn't be usable.
- ryanpetrich 16y agoOn OS X, Safari has access to all my documents, iTunes library, Mail.app inbox and Adium chat history. If Safari were compromised, it would have access to all of my important data.