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by semi-extrinsic 799 days ago
But this is not "sandboxed" in any conventional understanding of the term. "sandboxed" would mean that the binary has restricted access to resources like the filesystem, the network etc.
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Ok, you’re right, sandboxed isn’t the right word; my bad.

However, it’s more isolated than what currently exists, even if it’s not totally isolated, and it’s an effort to prevent abuse, rather than doing nothing.

My point is that you can contain the impact of cli apps in various ways.