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by naasking 2585 days ago
Android didn't innovate those. Per-application sandboxing was the default in capability systems since the 60s, and became more widely deployed in the OLPC Bitfrost security model, and even had a deployment in HP labs' Polaris Windows NT-based environment for virus safe computing. These two projects informed the early Android security model IIRC.