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The point of the lock analogy is to point out the absurdity of analogies here.
by bagels 5y ago
The point of the lock analogy is to point out the absurdity of analogies here.
- UncleMeat 5y agoThen drop the analogy. If I install software that was written in C++ on a device I own and it processed untrusted content then I put myself as fairly major risk of all sorts of harm. There are only two resolutions for this problem: 1. No more memory-unsafe languages on security boundaries. 2. Extremely effective sandboxing and process isolation. #2 has proven very hard. But we know how to do #1. We just need to spend the effort.