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throwawayffffas • today at 9:28 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Nah we just all have to switch to a handfull of heavily audited memory safe unikernels.

Your http proxy and your web server don't need a shell, drivers for wifi, mail daemons, systemd, python, PHP, perl, docker, multiple users, hell it might not even need a file system.

You can ship a stripped down docket image running on a stripped down Linux distro, but that still ships the entire kernel with a huge amount of functionality you don't need that may be exploited.


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__d • today at 10:52 AM

I am kinda expecting the second coming of unikernels. The reduction in both attack surface and depth seems likely to be useful.

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