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Touche on Oct 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compar...

I'm confused. The original person I responded to said that no desktop OSes had good security models. On OSX I can write a script that, when run as a user, has access to everything the user has access to. So what exactly are you talking about?

SamReidHughes on Oct 9, 2014 | [–]

I'm talking about OS X sandboxing. The hypothetical PDF reader doesn't have access to the email.

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