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pmahoney on Oct 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir

> A program that runs on your computer has access to all your files anyway.

This is also a security problem. If I have the means to run a program (downloaded from the internet; don't fully trust) in a sandbox that restricts its filesystem access, it'd be nice to also not allow it to control my whole GUI session.

panzi on Oct 19, 2014 [–]

Well, yeah. A sandbox should be able to control restrict, but in principle I want to have the ability to control other windows.

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