Software Sandboxing

Discussions center on the implementation, effectiveness, limitations, and challenges of sandboxing techniques for securely running untrusted code, including browser sandboxes and escape vulnerabilities.

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Sample Comments

muizelaar Aug 2, 2016 View on HN

Did you not think of sandboxing?

digianarchist May 7, 2025 View on HN

I don't believe this can be done whilst maintaining a strong sandbox.

nwienert Sep 25, 2020 View on HN

It’s still sandboxed. What evil thing would it be doing?

UncleMeat Sep 8, 2023 View on HN

Sandboxing is not perfect. There are sandbox escapes all the time.

binsquare Dec 11, 2025 View on HN

What is the technology you're using for the sandboxing?

anoncake Jun 21, 2019 View on HN

That's what sandboxing is for.

compressedgas Oct 26, 2025 View on HN

Seems they can't just sandbox it.

mike_esspe Oct 13, 2012 View on HN

There seems to be an empirical law: You can't sandbox code securely :)

lachlan-sneff Sep 9, 2018 View on HN

How well do they support software sandboxing?

jbverschoor Nov 4, 2021 View on HN

What's your strategy/stack of sandboxing, and on what os?