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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by parker_mountain on Saturday April 22, 2023 @11:23PM (#35673034)
>If security really mattered, every OS would run applications in a proper sandbox,

these OSes were designed decades ago, before we really had a good grasp on security. there were other significant concerns as well, such as performance

also, modern OS toolkits, such as on macos and windows 11, are moving towards a permission and API model that will allow sandboxing. In fact, macos is moving quite quickly towards this.

And lastly, there is a widely deployed OS that runs all applications in a proper sandbox: chromeos

I think it's understood at this point by everyone in the industry that sandboxing is the future, but it's taking a while to get there.

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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by Nursie on Sunday April 23, 2023 @12:51AM (#35673368)
> before we really had a good grasp on security

Not just that, but before we realised just how many people there would be trying to claw their way into any gap for all manner of dark purposes.

Early networked OS and protocol designers thought that people would, largely, cooperate with each other and share resources for the greater good.

I wish to live in their naively optimistic future, instead of the one with real humans :/

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