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Yes, well, the concept of sandboxing is wonderful, but that's all it is. A concept. An idea. A design pattern. It's not guaranteed to be effective. Many people will go about implementing many different types of sandboxes many different ways.

Yeah, browsers sandbox their active content, and mobile operating systems sandbox their apps, but so what.

Why should everyone acquiesce to being continually haunted by ubiquitous background processes that are constantly monitoring their every zoom, tilt, scroll, highlight and twitch? Why?



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