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I'd be wary of Anonymous-OS including exploits to break out of a VM and infect the host.

• threepointone 15y ago
  Is that even possible? How would one even go about doing so?
  • colechristensen 15y ago
    Yes, it is entirely possible for software to break out of a virtual machine and run code on other VMs or the host. Isolating something in a virtual machine does provide rather good security, but none is perfect. Vulnerabilities have existed in many virtualization systems which allowed this to happen.
    • threepointone 15y ago
      Thanks, that actually stops me from trying to get the OS running. However, why did gnu8 get downvoted? Seems like a reasonable comment, relevant to the discussion.
      • FreakLegion 15y ago
        My guess is he was downvoted either for political reasons (by someone who's pro-Anonymous and mistakenly took his comment as a knock against them[1]), or because the downvoter wasn't security-savvy enough to know that gnu8's concern is legitimate. [1] "Anonymous is not unanimous" and all that, but at the risk of No-True-Scotsmanning, either the distro is legitimately from Anonymous and contains no malware, or it contains malware and isn't legitimately from Anonymous (rather is intended as an attack against them).