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Re:Initial support for guided disk encryption in OpenBSD ins... by 2b3a51 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:12PM (#35073406)
The comment directly above yours was referring to the work that some of the OpenBSD packagers do when providing packages for installation on OpenBSD additional to the base, using pledge and unveil.

As a concrete example, Firefox can only load/save or download files to ~/Download by default.

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Re:Initial support for guided disk encryption in OpenBSD ins... by Zurrrrr on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:20PM (#35073498)
I'm all for making software more secure, and pledge serves a niche. But it is entirely useless in the scenario where someone has root.
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