On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]>wrote:

> > Developing this idea further, if I want to treat all closed source
> > binary x86 code as untrusted and dangerous (which is indeed my security
> > policy) and run it only in special restricted "jail" environments like
> > I've described, it probably wouldn't be that much extra effort to make
> > this "jail" environment in the form of a software-based x86 instruction
> > set emulator running on a machine whose native architecture could be
> > completely different...
>
> Bochs on your choice of hardware.
> Short of that KVM/Qemu/etc, run the closed-source stuff only in VM, not
> host.
> chroot jail.
> Wonder if a MAC such as SeLinux or AppArmor would do
> (that's Mandatory Access Control, not to confuse w/ either hardware MAC).
>
> Has anyone on the list got Gnash to work usably?
> Configured Firefox to seamlessly use Mplayer-plugin instead of
> closed-plugin
> to display Flash content as inline plugin?
>

No. Gnash barely works.


>
> /Randall
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