Current state of linux application sandboxing. Is it even as secure as Android ?

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  • ipfs-nix-guide

    IPFS × Nix Guide

  • I would consider Nix superior, just a gut feeling, especially when https://github.com/obsidiansystems/ipfs-nix-guide exists. The integration of P2P with opensource is perfect and I have never seen it elsewhere. Flatpak is limiting as I can't I use it to sandbox things not installed by it.

  • v86

    x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

  • Simply by enabling JavaScript you are running untrusted code inside the sandbox that is the JS engine of your browser. Things like http://copy.sh/v86/ can run Windows or Linux inside this sandbox. So, you are saying that you fully trust each snippet of JS that your browser downloads?

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  • Conty

    Easy to use unprivileged Linux container packed into a single portable executable

  • I'd imagine the sandbox options are bubblewrap presets, though -- you'd probably want to look around conty-start.sh for more details or ask in the GitHub Discussion.

  • nixpak

    Runtime sandboxing for Nix

  • Are you aware of https://github.com/nixpak/nixpak

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