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by theossuary 906 days ago
There's a big difference between securing containers, and using them to prevent Adobe from polluting they entire system. Containers are an excellent way to provide lower guarantees of security (though still more than is there currently), with higher usability. Microvms also fit into the model very cleanly and could be used transparently when higher security was required.

The fact that VMs are necessary has shown how much OSes have failed. That we need to take an OS and package it into multiple VMs to get any real isolation is a problem that OSes should solve for.

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> The fact that VMs are necessary has shown how much OSes have failed.

The fact that VMs exist at all shows how much OSes have succeeded.