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Re:VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than... by capableweb on Monday May 22, 2023 @06:42AM (#36029687)
At least there is practiced, hardened and battle-tested tools that are relatively straight-forward to use in Linux-land, like AppArmor.

MacOS also recently started investing more into securing the desktops of developers.

Windows seems shit out of luck in that regards.

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Re:VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than... by wcoenen on Monday May 22, 2023 @10:23AM (#36031831)
I'm not sure whether it does what you want, but Windows has "Windows Sandbox":

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

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