Researchers Release Capsicum, New Sandbox Framework

win32sux · 08-13-2010, 10:50 PM

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As applications have become more and more complex in recent years and Web browsers have evolved into operating systems unto themselves, the task of securing desktop environments has become increasingly difficult. And while there's been quite a bit of innovation on Windows security, advances in Unix security have been less common of late. But now, a group of researchers from Google and the University of Cambridge in England have developed a new sandboxing framework called Capsicum, designed specifically to provide better security capabilities on Unix and Unix-derived systems.

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Thanks to Slashdot for covering this.

sag47 · 08-14-2010, 05:54 PM

Interesting. I'm still waiting on a database filesystem