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Because regarding the sandboxing of applications, you said: > Absolutely horrible idea. Linux users aren't exactly in desperate need of protection from their c
by weavejester 12y ago
Because regarding the sandboxing of applications, you said:
> Absolutely horrible idea. Linux users aren't exactly in desperate need of protection from their computers.
If you agree that your system can be compromised, why would you say that an extra layer of protection was a bad idea?
- wfunction 12y agoBecause I'm almost certain that it will cause some kind of inconvenience down the road. It's unlikely to be "free" -- no OS-level security feature I've seen has been "free" in terms of convenience.
- weavejester 12y agoJust off the top of my head, hard drive encryption is an OS-level security feature that's reasonably "free" in terms of convenience. But even if all previous efforts have failed, which I really don't think is the case, trying to improve security is surely a laudable goal. And even if you would consider sandboxing to be inconvenient, there are plenty of people who'd love to have something like that. Right now, if I open up an application, I have no idea what directories it's accessing or servers its communicating with. Forcing an app to tell me whenever it wants to access something new would be fantastic, and as a side effect, it would put pressure on application programmers to reduce the number of privileges they ask for.