I wonder if they could run it on OpenBSD and FreeBSD as well.

I think this is one area where Windows has an advantage.

ACLs, Appcontainers with capabilities, etc have been something in the OS for more than a decade.

Crazy times. These corporations and their governments have access to literal zero-day vending machines. Put $50 in - get another one. I mean, yeah, it was clear that certain agencies had heaps of useful exploits at hand for quite some time now. But AI really commoditizes these exploits. If there's source code or even just a binary available, they can hack it. And even if your code is robust and secure, they just pull the lever on the vending machine again and come back with some zero-day for your OS's networking stack.

cc <<< 'Rewrite the kernel, all libs and all GNU in rust so we can avoid the unsafe keyword. Make only one mistake and document it in mistake.md'

How many of these would have been prevented by using safe Rust?

and yet thousands of iot devices will not get these updates. This is gonna be fun.

Well at least they are doing public service while hacking the planet.

And so many more are hidden in there, in those MLoCs.

The only way forward is a better system architecture, as enabled by the seL4[0] microkernel.

Any solution involving keeping Linux or the monolithic kernel is just stopgap or outright delusional.

0. https://sel4.systems

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