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to the people that have experience designing Operating Systems - how difficult is it to have proper application sandboxing ? If everything is user level sandbo
by dzonga 6y ago
to the people that have experience designing Operating Systems - how difficult is it to have proper application sandboxing ?
If everything is user level sandboxed. app can only access it's data. then apple | google wouldn't need to charge 30% to vet apps.
if data is to be shared - it has to be explicit.
- zepto 6y agoIt’s impossible because it doesn’t solve social engineering or phishing attacks.
- vbezhenar 6y agoBrowser environment provides a living example that it's possible to have a proper application sandboxing. Even with multiple different produciton-quality implementations. A more interesting and practical question is how difficult is it to have proper application sandboxing, while keeping reasonable backwards compatibility level with existing code. I think that it's near impossible, that's why I don't hold high hopes regarding any existing OS sandboxing. But new systems like Fuchsia might actually bring us Android successor able to run any code without fear.