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Yes, Windows does have sandboxing APIs of sorts, but they are not used nearly as much, either by the system or by third-party apps, as Lion sandboxing. This is
by othermaciej 15y ago
Yes, Windows does have sandboxing APIs of sorts, but they are not used nearly as much, either by the system or by third-party apps, as Lion sandboxing. This is probably in part because the relevant Windows APIs are extremely course-grained and therefore very hard to use.
- rdl 15y agoYeah -- I totally agree that Apple's done a better job making this usable for developers and thus users, but that's what Apple does with everything. I wish someone would do a great iris biometric app for the Mac and iPhone, and would incorporate a hw tamper-resistant chip for password to key mapping (to reduce all brute force attempts to "online" vs. "offline"). iCloud kinda solves the latter by potentially letting you push auth out into the cloud.