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?