Re:A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's Mong...
by ahepp on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:25AM
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Well, if they get root on your mongo vm they can still drop all your tables (or ransomware you) right? So would it make a difference in this particular case? Outside the VM tooling probably not being so insane as to bypass the firewall?
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Re:A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's Mong...
by eru on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:35AM
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Well, in this case docker was trying to be helpful.
On a hypervisor, it's much harder for VMs to influence each other.
Linux containers (and docker amongst them) started out as convenient and reasonably performant, and added security later. One patch at a time.
Historically, hypervisors typically started secure and added performance and convenience over time.
(Very simplified. But I used to work for XenSource back in the day.)