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Re:Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon by 2Gkashmiri on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:25AM (#25856419)
how do you "secure" machines if they are windows ones and dumb people plugin flash drives and click on big shiny download ram buttons. genuinely curious.
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Re:Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon by icebraining on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:06AM (#25858036)
One way to do it is to whitelist all binaries in the system, and sandbox all applications (to prevent chances of a malicious PDF/image/etc abusing a buggy application).
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Re:Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon by 2Gkashmiri on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:45PM (#25861670)
can you do that on windows? every single exe, every process?
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Re:Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon by icebraining on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:58AM (#25870141)
Yeah, the security policies let you do that. I think the current mechanism is called AppLocker.

Note that there may be still ways to bypass it if you're an attacker sitting at the computer, rather than a hapless user.

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