Re: JDK 1.8.0_20 and JDK 1.7.0_67 released

From:

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:32:33 -0400

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On 8/22/2014 9:18 PM, Chris Uppal wrote:

Arne Vajh?j wrote:

There also should be a set of sandboxes they can run in. The OS
enforces the sandbox. You then don't have to be so careful about
loading a little app that can only play with its own limited size
files and cannot print.

MS introduced that concept 2 years ago. This is how Windows Store
apps work on Windows 8.x+.

I will consider it a big failure. It has definitely not caught
on.

In what context has it not "caught on" ? As I understand it, that is the basic
security model of Android (can't speak for Apple stuff). Oh, and Android got
there before MS (or at least got there > 2 years ago).

And I /seriously/ doubt whether Android was the first.

Come to that I /seriously/ doubt whether the model is sufficiently strong.

Well - the part of what I commented on that you did not quote was:

#I think in future all apps, including desktop apps, should be signed.

I do not consider Java applets, Flash, Silverlight, iOS apps,
Android apps, WP apps etc. for desktop.

I do consider Windows 8 a desktop OS.

Arne