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Re:Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is no... by jazzyjackson on Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:43PM (#34393832)
> proper sandboxing

Do jails not fulfill this?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is no... by charcircuit on Sunday January 15, 2023 @05:05PM (#34394072)
OpenBSD doesn't have jails. Jails take effort to setup. It's much easier to just run the malware instead of going through the effort of making a jail for it.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is no... by lcall on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:22PM (#34402969)
It certainly has chroot jails, and many other protections. You might find interesting: https://www.openbsd.org/security.html .
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Re:Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is no... by lcall on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:23PM (#34402974)
Yes, among other protections that are even more convenient or built in. https://www.openbsd.org/security.html
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