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Google invented sandboxing in client apps? I don't know who's more arrogant - Google or their fawning fanboys.

by honestthrowaway 12y ago

delroth 12y ago
Calling comex a "fawning fanboy"? That's ballsy for a throwaway account.
- honestthrowaway 12y ago
  Claiming that Chrome pioneered sandboxing doesn't pass the smell test, irrespective of how many Google employees (according to your profile) are backing you up.
  - yuhong 12y ago
    But do you know who comex is? People sometimes are not exactly precise and sometimes make mistakes too.
    - frankzinger 12y ago
      But do you know who comex is? I didn't, and it was not that easy to find out, but I was curious. He is Nicholas Allegra and he is known for jailbreaking the iPhone. See http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/04/google-comex/ http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/04/google-comex/ and http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/08/01/meet-comex-the-iphone-uber-hacker-who-keeps-outsmarting-apple/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/08/01/meet-co.... He went on to work for Apple and now for Google, apparently on the Chome or Chrome OS teams.
      - Apofis 12y ago
        Damn, now honestthrowaway looks even more foolish. I can understand why he used a throwaway now.
  - strcat 12y ago
    No one is claiming that Google invented sandboxing. You should stop lying to push your bias because it only makes you look foolish.
- ryannevius 12y ago
  Wouldn't comex be the "Google" in the comment, rather than the "fanboy"?
  - delroth 12y ago
    comex doesn't work for Google.
strcat 12y ago
Google created seccomp-bpf which is crucial to a meaningful sandbox and has no equivalent on other platforms. It was not an obvious innovation or it would have been done years earlier. It exists because someone paid by Google to improve Chromium security had the epiphany that BPF would be a good way to filter system calls.
- RaleyField 12y ago
  Isn't seccomp-bpf similar to OpenBSD's (failed) systrace? Both are basically filters for system calls if I'm not mistaken.

Google invented sandboxing in client apps? I don't know who's more arrogant - Google or their fawning fanboys.

delroth 12y ago

Calling comex a "fawning fanboy"? That's ballsy for a throwaway account.

honestthrowaway 12y ago
Claiming that Chrome pioneered sandboxing doesn't pass the smell test, irrespective of how many Google employees (according to your profile) are backing you up.
- yuhong 12y ago
  But do you know who comex is? People sometimes are not exactly precise and sometimes make mistakes too.
  - frankzinger 12y ago
    But do you know who comex is? I didn't, and it was not that easy to find out, but I was curious. He is Nicholas Allegra and he is known for jailbreaking the iPhone. See http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/04/google-comex/ http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/04/google-comex/ and http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/08/01/meet-comex-the-iphone-uber-hacker-who-keeps-outsmarting-apple/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/08/01/meet-co.... He went on to work for Apple and now for Google, apparently on the Chome or Chrome OS teams.
    - Apofis 12y ago
      Damn, now honestthrowaway looks even more foolish. I can understand why he used a throwaway now.
- strcat 12y ago
  No one is claiming that Google invented sandboxing. You should stop lying to push your bias because it only makes you look foolish.
ryannevius 12y ago
Wouldn't comex be the "Google" in the comment, rather than the "fanboy"?
- delroth 12y ago
  comex doesn't work for Google.

strcat 12y ago

Google created seccomp-bpf which is crucial to a meaningful sandbox and has no equivalent on other platforms. It was not an obvious innovation or it would have been done years earlier. It exists because someone paid by Google to improve Chromium security had the epiphany that BPF would be a good way to filter system calls.

RaleyField 12y ago
Isn't seccomp-bpf similar to OpenBSD's (failed) systrace? Both are basically filters for system calls if I'm not mistaken.