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4 posts tagged appcontainer.
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Agentic Identity on Windows: When the Process Acting on Your Behalf Isn't You
Every AI agent on Windows in 2026 runs as the logged-on user. The cloud-identity layer has crossed the agent-attribution gap; the OS layer has not. This article maps the FIDO AATWG pillars onto Windows primitives and asks what is missing.
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AppContainer and LowBox Tokens: Windows's Capability Sandbox
How a single bit in Windows's access token, two new SID alphabets, and a per-package namespace partition let the kernel give two co-tenanted apps opposite verdicts.
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The Object Manager Namespace: The Hierarchical Filesystem Underneath Every Windows Security Boundary
A bottom-up tour of the Windows Object Manager namespace, the 1993 Cutler-era kernel data structure that every Windows security boundary quietly assumes.
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"Who Is This Code?" -- The Quiet 33-Year Reinvention of App Identity in Windows
NT 3.1 could prove which user typed at the keyboard but had no answer to which code was running. Eight successive primitives later, Windows is still answering the same question.