Microsoft Puts 'Web Sandbox' Into Open Source

Reading this article, I though of the conversation we had in class about Web 2.0 and internet security. Microsoft Live Labs has developed a new internet innovation called "Web Sandbox" which aims to make the friendly user Web 2.0 more secure. WIth more power in the hands of the user and web content constantly changing, it makes sense that these sites could easily come under attack through things like "cross-site scripting attacks". So how does Microsoft plan to bump up security? The term is virtualization and their methodology is to isolate behind-the-scene processes and "virtualize" the separate components that makeup up Web 2.0 sites. Web Sandbox sounds like it can be easily applied to the web; Developers claim that it works on most current Web browsers that support the Javascript standard. The fact that Microsoft is strongly urging Web developers to try to break through Sandbox's security and test the new model is a good sign. It seems that Microsoft Live Labs is just trying to make sure its new technology really is secure.