2009/11/8 Dan Kegel <[email protected]>: > I expect that people will do utterly stupid things, > there's no two ways around that, it's human nature. > That being the case, I think there are still opportunities > for providing a safe computing experience without > compromising the user's convenience. > Case in point: the sandbox used by the Chromium web > browser. It provides a modicum of security without > getting in the way. I can easily imagine classes > of windows apps, say, games, fitting nicely into a > sandboxed wine environment. Sure, getting the > networking right would be a challenge, but for at > least casual games, it ought to be quite doable. > The key is to require no user choices -- just do the > right thing by default. Then the user's level of education > or computer skills don't matter.
You'd get good sandboxing running Wine apps as another user. Main problem then is integration with the user's desktop. Doable, but a nuisance. - d.
