Developers report working on similar sandbox solutions
2 Sep 22 10:56 AM · 1d ago · 3 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 5
Comments reveal multiple engineers independently building comparable sandboxing tools, with several confirming the validation of the problem space and sharing their parallel approaches.
“Hi OP, funny enough I'm working on something very similar. Lots of us are I guess! Take that as validation of your thinking.”
refibrillatormixedbit (Jan) Drop creatorp2004a Drop early userrefibrillator Developer working on parallel solution
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This is super interesting to me. I've slowly been working on something similar (https://gitlab.com/saghm/tartarus) because my ideal sandboxing is "prevent writing to anything outside this dir but still allow reading to most things so that I don't have to manually copy things into a container/VM". I approached it by trying to figure out how to…
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Hi OP, funny enough I’m working on something very similar. Lots of us are I guess! Take that as validation of your thinking.I like that your readme has a couple paragraphs comparing to popular tools in this space. Personally I feel it is a bit light on the security differentiators (if any). For example you are using the same fundamental primitives…
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Gratulacje Jan! Looks like something critical to gain adoption these days, security-wise. For others who also wonder how it works, I find this docs page a bit more informative than the landing page
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