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The Java Security Manager was not very effective in practice. It was already deprecated in Java 17 and will be removed in the future: https://openjdk.org/jeps/411

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I understand their reasoning but it's still kind of sad that there's no replacement planned.

It would be cool if there was a universal access control platform, but I guess the best we're getting is Docker, because such a platform would commoditize OSes, which OS creators for sure don't want :-(

From an organizational standpoint its better because it lets a sysadmin/security person sandbox anything and everything instead of having to become proficient with the tooling for every different language (which may not even exist).

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