“Dehumanization in Edward Albee's Play "The Sandbox

Cyber-dehumanization: Violent video game play diminishes our humanity

Enter Sandbox: Android Sandbox Comparison

Expecting the shipment of 1 billion Android devices in 2017, cyber criminals have naturally extended their vicious activities towards Google’s mobile operating system. With an estimated number of 700 new Android applications released every day, keeping control over malware is an increasingly challenging task. In recent years, a vast number of static and dynamic code analysis platforms for analy...

secmodel sandbox : An application sandbox for NetBSD (draft)

We introduce a new security model for NetBSD – secmodel sandbox – that allows per-process policies for restricting privileges. Privileges correspond to kauth authorization requests, such as a request to create a socket or read a file, and policies specify the sandbox’s decision: deny, defer, or allow. Processes may apply multiple sandbox policies to themselves, in which case the policies stack,...

SandBlaster: Reversing the Apple Sandbox

In order to limit the damage of malware on Mac OS X and iOS, Apple uses sandboxing, a kernel-level security layer that provides tight constraints for system calls. Particularly used for Apple iOS, sandboxing prevents apps from executing potentially dangerous actions, by defining rules in a sandbox profile. Investigating Apple’s built-in sandbox profiles is difficult as they are compiled and sto...

Sapients in a Sandbox

The purpose of this Chapter is to set concrete grounds for two arguments. The first in favor of approaching the notion of sapient systems from the unlikely perspective of stupidity. The second, in favor of paying serious attention to the environment where agents endowed with decision autonomy —be they sapient, human or otherwise— interact. Although the paper is ostensibly speculative, some conc...