Sandboxing: Foolproof Boundaries vs. Unbounded Foolishness

2025/05/08 by Terence Kelly, Edison Fuh · 2 voices
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Gambling Behavior and Treatments #Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology #Digital Games and Media

paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3733699

Abstract

Sandboxing mitigates the risks of software so large and complex that it's likely to harbor security vulnerabilities. To safely harness useful yet ominously opaque libraries, a simple mechanism provides ironclad confinement—or does it?

Citations

• Reflections on trusting trust

Discussions

• Protecting your code from other people's bugs [hn, 22 points, 4 comments]
• Protecting your code from other people's bugs https://doi.org/10.1145/3733699 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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