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"Unikernels have no shells. Most attacks I’ve seen invoke /bin/sh to modify the system they are attacking. Without a shell the attacker doesn’t have this opport
by peterwwillis 9y ago
"Unikernels have no shells. Most attacks I’ve seen invoke /bin/sh to modify the system they are attacking. Without a shell the attacker doesn’t have this opportunity. This forces the attacker to use machine code to subvert the system, decreasing the likelihood of succeeding with the attack."
Timmy the software developer and his many years of forensic analysis have led him to believe that you need a shell to root something. Literally the entire page's takeaway about security is "It's hard to use, so it's secure!"