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Because 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
by wfunction 12y ago
Because 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.