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Is there any stuff in existence that even needs to be sandboxed? I had the impression that all the software available on Linux phones comes from whatever Linux
by upofadown 5y ago
Is there any stuff in existence that even needs to be sandboxed? I had the impression that all the software available on Linux phones comes from whatever Linux distribution is used.
- kaba0 5y agoOpen source software may not be malicious, but any bug in them can be exploited. Eg, one in firefox can cause arbitrary code execution on your computer without any security barrier. And let’s be honest, everything written in C is no life time guarantee on correctness.
- nsajko 5y agoNitpick: sandboxing also makes sense for anything that executes untrusted code and similar. But the proper solution includes designing the sandboxing into the application, like Chromium does it. So this doesn't have much to do with the confused claims of those claiming that "Linux is insecure" and similar.