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by 2OEH8eoCRo0 1573 days ago
How are they not a security boundary? Nearly everything is a security boundary using defense in depth no?
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Security boundaries in Linux are UIDs/GIDs, capabilities, SELinux domains, and others. These can be applied to processes regardless of whether the process runs in a container.

i.e. root inside a container is root on the host; the container itself doesn't help that. But other security features, that are applied to the processes within the container when the container is created, might.