On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 04:40:03 UTC+10, Lorenzo Lamas  wrote:
> Imho it would still be a good idea because of the PaX protections on user 
> applications.
> For example it could prevent exploitation of your mail client. The infection 
> may not be able to survive AppVM reboot but it could still steal information. 
> You can of course limit the damage by compartmentalizing more granular, but 
> that doesn't prevent it in the first place and more AppVMs means more 
> resource usage.

That's how I looked at it too.  (Additionally, reboots don't protect against 
infections in /home, such as malicious browser extension, modified .bash_rc, 
etc.)

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