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by uncledave 1918 days ago
Processes were a form of robust virtualisation once. It’s just pushing the problem down another layer. There are vulnerabilities in virtualisation layers too.
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> Processes were ..

Was it ever robust? Or just that there weren't yet so many exploits?

It’s a good question. Perhaps the same is true now with virtualisation.
> There are vulnerabilities in virtualisation layers too.

Qubes OS v4+ does not use typical software virtualization methods. VT-d hardware virtualization it uses was broken only once, and it was done by the Qubes founder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software)