[HIB]Don't bury your head in a security sandbox

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Adobe will employ a new sandboxing technology in the next version of its oft-targeted Reader in the name of hardening security. However, the effort won't make Reader more secure in the long run -- and likely not even in the short run. I'm a big believer that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, and if you look at the two-decade history of security sandboxes, you'll see they all eventually failed big.The best example of failed sandboxes can be found in Java, which used an especially locked-down sandbox from the very beginning. In fact, it was so secure (no long-term writes outside the sandbox) that it proved too locked down. Nobody could use it to develop any substantial apps. To save a game score or spreadsheet, you needed long-term storage.

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