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Sandboxing doesn't require an app store
by wbl 7y ago
Sandboxing doesn't require an app store
- antoinevg 7y agoExactly. Everyone keeps bringing up this legendary "app store featuring safe curated content" keeping the "ordinary user" safe but the reality is both Google & Apple's stores are riddled with deceptive apps, scam subscriptions and spyware! The real story with iOS (and to a lesser extent Android) security has been the switch to restricting the damage any particular app can do through process and resource isolation.
- saagarjha 7y agoThe App Store allows for apps to be forced to sandbox themselves. Very few macOS apps outside the App Store are sandboxed, for example.