Re:Show HN: Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub...
by airhead969 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:04AM
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Docker containers aren't provably secure. If you want isolation, use a VM that doesn't have host file system access. This way, if the VM is compromised, just throw it away and it can't leak out the way containers do.
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Re:Show HN: Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub...
by px43 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:14AM
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> Docker containers aren't provably secure.
Not only are they not provably secure (very few things are), they are explicitly not intended for use as a security boundary. Their whole gimmick is lightweight containers you can use instead of VMs if you trust everyone who's going to run code under them.
Re:Show HN: Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub...
by airhead969 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:59AM
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To disambiguate: I don't mean formal verification like seL4, I mean it hasn't been thoroughly audited to show it is reasonably secure. Docker security of images and running containers is pretty shit as I brought up on GH in the beginning. Developers just shrugged it off and focused on whiz-bang features.
The conflation of what amounts to fancy Linux cgroups trickery with hypervisors is a depressing misunderstanding of isolation.