sudo disappears after latest update

[Ian Malone]

On 10 February 2016 at 23:22, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>

> I am sorry to burst the bubble that was perpetrated by Sun Microsystems.
> I worked at Sun Microsystems as a contractor and talked to a very senior
> developer at Menlo Park. I knew this developer from working with him in
> a previous company. Under my oath never to reveal his name, he clued me in
> that the fictitious "sandbox" was the entire system. Sun was clever to use
> the
> term sandbox as a subterfuge for the silicon of the chips.
> This "sandbox=entire system" was confirmed to me in an email from another
> very senior developer who is still on this list, but will not expose his
> name.
> He confirmed that the sandbox is the entirety of the system.
> Reason why some people will go to email flame wars on this issue is because
> either it is their penny at stake, or they are obeying their superiors.

Without details as to what language and vm it refers to unfortunately
this is not a very useful anecdote. The plugin sandbox that firefox or
edge use is not the same as a javascript sandbox in netscape (was
there one?), or a java sandbox.

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imalone
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