alt Hacker NewsBut that's what they're doing. The hard part isn't the VM. The hard part is the long fought functional yet secure sandbox that a browser provides.
But that's what they're doing. The hard part isn't the VM. The hard part is the long fought functional yet secure sandbox that a browser provides.
> functional yet secure
Secure? Debatable. Functional? Not really.
For example, try accessing a security key and watch the fun. Sure, if you access it exactly the way Google wants you to, things kinda-sorta work, sometimes. If you don't want to obey your Google masters, good luck getting your Bluetooth or USB packet to your security key.
And because you are "secure", you can't store anything on the local hard drive. Oh, and you can't send a real network packet either. All you can do is send a supplication request to a network database owned by somebody else that holds your data--"Please, sir, can I have some more?". The fact that this prevents you from exporting your data away from cloud-centered SaaS providers is purely coincidental, I'm sure. </sarcasm>
So in the name of security we just kneecap the end users--if the users can't do anything, they're secure, right? Diana Moon Glampers would be proud.