Sophos, the company που απέκτησε το Sandboxie, το γνωστό μας sandboxing software και την τεχνολογία από την Invincea in 2017, released the source code of the application to the public.
Η εφαρμογή Sandboxie, η οποία δημιουργήθηκε από τον Ronan Tzur, κυκλοφόρησε για πρώτη φορά σαν εργαλείο για το sandbox του Internet Explorer το 2004. Η λειτουργικότητα του προγράμματος επεκτάθηκε με την πάροδο των ετών, έτσι ώστε οι χρήστες των Windows να μπορούν να το χρησιμοποιούν για sandbox σε όλες τις applications of Windows.
Sophos released the Sandboxie app as a freeware in 2019 and promised to release the app's source code sometime later. So the time has come and the Sandboxie source code is now available for download. Interested users can download it from official webpage.
Sophos also published a FAQ that answers some of the questions that existing and new Sandboxie users may have. The company says that in communication with "community members" it made Sandboxie available "through an open source program in the community".
The latest version of the Sandboxie application created by Sophos is 5.33.3 and runs on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. All the features in the commercial versions of Sandboxie are also available in this version. In other words, Sandboxie has become a completely free software. The source code version is 5.40 according to the file name.
Updates, for bug fixes or improvements, from now on will be made by the community or other bodies that will use the code and continue to develop. Sophos plans to close the license server and the forum on June 1, 2020.
The company will keep the official website online until then, but plans to shut it down in the fall of 2020. By then, the community should have fully taken over the project.
From what I have seen, Sandboxie is being developed by a specific person named David Xanatos. I wonder if it is safe to use it now