3 ms·

You run a VM just to inspect "sketchy-looking links"? That sounds like paranoid behavior, if I'm being honest.

• Scoundreller 5y ago
  If anything, not paranoid enough because still tracking. This place would be one of the best to hit with a 0day. Lots of IT people with full admin rights to entire corporate networks.
  • throwaway3699 5y ago
    Doesn't fit the risk profile. 0days are used with surgical precision, not simply to dunk on hundreds of random businesses.
    • Scoundreller 5y ago
      You can send different things to different requesting hosts. Users at XYZ.gov gets the 0day, everyone else gets what is expected.
• bena 5y ago
  A healthy paranoia if you grew up with the internet. When a link can compromise an entire machine, having a machine you can literally throw away with no consequence is nice. Hell, I'd wager to say that containers wouldn't be a thing if it weren't for this kind of behavior. Looking for ways to build up and destroy VMs even faster.
  • dwarfsandstuff 5y ago
    You need a faster computer, man!
  • pabs3 5y ago
    Try qemu's microvm mode, combined with virtiofs: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/i386/microvm.html https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/i386/microvm.ht... https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/ https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
• jazzyjackson 5y ago
  Windows 10 pro let’s you bring up fresh sandbox with one click and about 5 seconds to boot, it’s really not such a burden. Or maybe people just have temp VMs running anyway, and like others have said, if you’re browsing hacker news on your work machine you should probably do so with a healthy dose of paranoia.
• CWuestefeld 5y ago
  This is a thread about John McAfee, after all.