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Escaping a virtual machine isn't unheard of. If I were a betting man then I would place good money that this, being a data dump of a state, could contain state-

Escaping a virtual machine isn't unheard of. If I were a betting man then I would place good money that this, being a data dump of a state, could contain state-sponsored 0-days designed to escape such things.

emerged 5y ago
I’d only touch this stuff with an airgapped machine which is imaged before and after.
- inetknght 5y ago
  And even then there are ways to put malware into BIOS and disk firmware. Seriously: only a throwaway machine.
  - fsflover 5y ago
    On a Pinephone or Librem 5, there is no such semi-writable firmware. You can wipe them fully AFAIK.
    - rlonn 5y ago
      Put it on a stone tablet to be on the safe side
fsflover 5y ago
Last escape from hardware virtualization on Qubes OS that I'm aware of was in 2006, by the Qubes founder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_%28software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_%28software%29.
nr2x 5y ago
Sorry I actually meant virtual virtual machines - they don’t even exist. Truly the only secure option.