Article:
Modern Web pages are made up of pieces that may be served from different locations—maps, visit counters, affiliate programs that run scripts on your page, gadgets built by outside developers, and more. But what happens when items you’re including hamper the experience, either on purpose or by mistake? IFrames isolate your site’s personal information without protecting users or their machines, which remain vulnerable in face of increasingly sophisticated exploits.
The Web Sandbox addresses this problem through virtualization. We provide an opportunity to test the Sandbox and find out whether it prevents the attacks you’re concerned about. It's designed to improve the security, isolation and quality of service for your site and your users. The goal is to get to an open and interoperable standard in this space, creating a robust and long term solution.
You can help by trying to hack the code to find scenarios or exploits we haven’t thought of yet. The more you try to break it, the stronger it will get. Our goal is to involve the community and release a set of open source components that can be improved upon as time goes by. Try it now.
Thoughts:
This software aims to increase the speed and security of Internet browsing by identifying irrelevant possible harmful components of a web page and blocking them. Does this stop adds/ pop ups and irrelevant links from appearing? How will this affect applications such as facebook who rely on adds for financial funding? Like anti virus software this technology would have to be constantly updated. Potentially useful in the architectural world in the sense that any increase in in research time online will result in an increase of productivity and as a result an increase in profits.