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How to "jail" Java applications in OS X?

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Mar 15, 20261487 views
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Is it possible to "jail" Java applications? My bank has an applet that requests "unrestricted access" to my computer. That makes me feels very uneasy. There should be a way to tell the java runtime that my system's root directory is something like /Users/myuser/javajail , and that would be all that…

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You could fake this by creating an account Jail with the minimum of rights and then running Safari with When you need to access your bank. Another option is to go to the Java Preferences and activate the Java Console. You can then poke around at wha…

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