
In an Adobe blog post, Platform Security Strategist Peleus Uhley wrote:įor the technically minded, this means that there is a specific file defining the security permissions for Flash Player when it runs within the sandboxed plugin process. Flash has been sandboxed for some time in Chrome, Firefox and even Internet Explorer. Sandboxing means that OS X restricts what the code can do, stopping a badly-written app from crashing the entire browser and preventing malware from getting access to any other part of your Mac. Safari 7, introduced with OS X Mavericks, is now better protected against malware and poorly-written Flash code as Flash is finally sandboxed.
