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Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

  • From: John Levine
  • Date: Thu Jun 14 15:30:35 2007 
>In general, creating a sandbox where a computer can only reach  
>$UPDATE_SERVER is very, very difficult.

I believe it.  Perhaps we could help Microsoft make it easier.  The
sandbox doesn't have to include all their servers, just enough of
them to service the sandboxed users.

> And, as much as I hate to admit it, MS OSes are not the only ones
>that can be compromised (he types on his black MacBook).

If we can get sandboxes for MS and Apple, we FreeBSD users are willing
to take our chances.

R's,
John