Talk:Sandbox (computer security)

message: Rule-based Execution gives users full control over what processes are started, spawned (by other applications), or allowed to inject code into other apps and have access to the net. It also can control file/registry security (What programs can read and write to the file system/registry) As such, viruses and trojans will have a less likely chance of infecting your PC. The SELinux and Apparmor security frameworks are two such implementations for Linux.
This paragraph is rather hard to understand for people who are not skilled in IT. It is also not obvious why this should be an example for a sandbox. Can somebody clarify that please?
--84.56.144.99 (talk) 13:36, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There are some very informative articles on Wikipedia about other highly technical subjects. If you already know the subject, then you don't need to be reading Wikipedia about it. Wikipedia is specifically FOR newbies to topics which people are unfamiliar with. If it wasn't then there wouldn't be any reason to have Wikipedia in the first place. QuintBy (talk) 02:14, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paragraph about exceptions 

message: What do you think about include references to "Unix chroot"? Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 16:47, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox and its subpages, especially the FAQ. --Jerome Potts (talk) 20:33, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  One external link which could be used as a source 

message: There are a couple of technologies similar to seccomp. An example is capsicum on FreeBSD and pledge on OpenBSD. CloudABI appears to be a similar system. Maybe someone with more insight can add them to the article?--Athaba (talk) 14:09, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other technologies to mention 

message: What exactly sandbox meaning? and where it come from?At Last ... (talk) 12:56, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defenition 

message: I revised the third sentence in the first paragraph to "A sandbox typically provides a tightly controlled set of resources for guest programs to run in, such as storage and memory scratch space."
The original sentence referred to disc rather than storage, but disc is only one of many types of storage, all of which apply in the statement.  That is, neither the type of memory nor the type of storage is relevant - whatever their type, a sandbox typically creates isolated (scratch) memory and storage space for the subject process to utilize.
Also my sense is in general "scratch" memory or storage space can be either isolated or not, depending upon how it's implemented.  If so it can, and I suspect often has, been configured to allow access by multiple processes or entire systems with limited or no functional isolation.  So perhaps "separate and fully isolated" is more accurate terminology than "scratch" for that sentence as well, such as, including other refinements:
"A sandbox typically provides a tightly controlled set of resources for a guest process to run within, such as separate and fully isolated storage and memory space."
Nonetheless I didn't implement that revision yet, but do support it.  So if there are no objections I might study the term "Scratch" and if my current sense is reasonably confirmed invoke the revision later.  Or another Wikipedian is welcome to do so as far as I'm concerned.
Please advise if I've erred, composed poorly, or caused any discomfort.  Cheers, --H Bruce Campbell (talk) 09:35, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Storage is the correct terminology, not disc. 

message: I noticed that Android's app sandboxes aren't listed as example, which seems like a pretty large hole since I think they were the first implementation of extensive app sandboxes in a commercial OS (and arguably set the standard for what is now expected security on mobile operating systems).
I am however clearly not unbiased on this, since I work on Android.  Just want to make sure others agree this is a reasonable addition.  --Dianne Hackborn (talk) 17:04, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Android as an example of sandbox implementations 

message: <What programs are better, software, and equipment?>
//  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.99.193 (talk) 05:44, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logic Pro X is Apple the best?