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Re:Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmental... by SamReidHughes on Thursday October 09, 2014 @01:38AM (#8430971)
Sandboxing. It's present on OS X.
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Re:Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmental... by Touche on Thursday October 09, 2014 @09:44AM (#8432265)
I'm confused. The original person I responded to said that no desktop OSes had good security models. On OSX I can write a script that, when run as a user, has access to everything the user has access to. So what exactly are you talking about?
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Re:Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmental... by SamReidHughes on Thursday October 09, 2014 @12:02PM (#8433201)
I'm talking about OS X sandboxing. The hypothetical PDF reader doesn't have access to the email.
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