On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:

> On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> But then, I haven't tried sandboxing yet. It sounds almost like some 
>> exquisite form of BDSM: taking away all of your freedom and then making you 
>> beg to get little bits back. Does it come with safe-words?
> 
> Irrespective of everything else, this is indeed the model for sandboxing. 
> Because "you" is not normally synonymous with "the user", and the industry 
> has awoken to the reality that the user can not trust your motives to be 
> pure. Because in the face of a successful attack, "you" might not be the 
> author of the executing code either.

Ah, that explains why all of Apple's apps are sandboxed  Riiiiight.

__jayson
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