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Comment by dagmx

Unfortunately, windows doesn’t really have sandboxed processes ubiquitously available.

There is https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

However it isn’t available in the Home release.

Also unlike macOS or iOS/Android sandboxes, it’s not a process level thing, but rather a VM of some kind.

Plus, if it did introduce sandboxing like macOS, you’d see so many people getting pissed off when their applications start asking for permissions, as can be seen in every single thread that comes up here with regards to macOS.

Personally I think every OS should have sandboxing by default (perhaps as an opt out) because no amount of being cautious as a user is enough to prevent application overreach.

parent dagmx 3 years ago

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