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Sandboxing is great since less and less control is in the hands of the app. I am sure apple will keep rolling out features expanding sandboxing, this is just th
by dlikhten 15y ago
Sandboxing is great since less and less control is in the hands of the app. I am sure apple will keep rolling out features expanding sandboxing, this is just the default impl. This also means that basically it will be harder and harder for apps to be malware in an already hostile system.
I wish android had this. Android needs this much more than iOS.
- shareme 15y agoandroid does have it.. each Dlavik VM instance is its own sandbox
- Karunamon 15y agoWhy is this gettting downvoted? It's good security practice, and the fact that Android needs better sandboxing was a foregone conclusion.
- bad_user 15y agoBecause all Android apps are sandboxed and have to request explicit permissions for connecting to the Internet, reading or writing the user's contacts, accessing the user's pictures and so on and so forth.
- mcherm 15y agoWhat is foregone about that conclusion? My impression is that Android's sandboxing is quite nice, thank you. In fact, I think the biggest failing is that there need to be stronger ways to ESCAPE the sandbox (eg: to build a virus-checker or a backup program).
- arron61 15y agoAndroid does have sandboxing and its much better in than iOS. Each app runs in its own VM instance and requests for permissions. Additionally each app can also call other apps via intents. This allows for great sandboxing and reutilization.