On 02/11/2016 05:41 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 10 February 2016 at 23:22, jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am sorry to burst the bubble that was perpetrated by Sun Microsystems.
I worked at Sun Microsystems as a contractor and talked to a very senior
developer at Menlo Park. I knew this developer from working with him in
a previous company. Under my oath never to reveal his name, he clued me in
that the fictitious "sandbox" was the entire system. Sun was clever to use
the
term sandbox as a subterfuge for the silicon of the chips.
This "sandbox=entire system" was confirmed to me in an email from another
very senior developer who is still on this list, but will not expose his
name.
He confirmed that the sandbox is the entirety of the system.
Reason why some people will go to email flame wars on this issue is because
either it is their penny at stake, or they are obeying their superiors.
Without details as to what language and vm it refers to unfortunately
this is not a very useful anecdote. The plugin sandbox that firefox or
edge use is not the same as a javascript sandbox in netscape (was
there one?), or a java sandbox.
So, you keep sanctioning and spreading and supporting the illusion of
security?
Such a sad position to adopt.
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