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Realistically we’re never going to be free of rowhammer and meltdown type attacks. Trying to prevent programs running on a computer from having full control of it just promotes a false sense of security.


If we read the article Apple isn’t planning to prevent programs from having full control, they’re just going to have better separation and user controls for “full disk access” versus “access to a limited subset of folders.”

This will allow programs like Spotify to only specify limited folder access while it’ll allow programs like Backblaze Backup To specify full disk access.


> Trying to prevent programs running on a computer from having full control of it just promotes a false sense of security.

Why would that stop at your computer's network socket?




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