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This week in Plasma: Getting .3 into shape, more KRunner searches, better scaling and a whole lot more:

blogs.kde.org/2025/01/18/this-

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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Can you tell us what happens on the "sandbox all the things" goal?

I think this is a pretty crucial step forward, even though #sandbox technologies (most often through user namespaces) are more problematic than I initially thought.

(Basically, user #namespaces open up #privesc dangers to the monolithic #kernel, which is incredible. #Android and #ChromeOS use #LXC, mounts and #SELinux for #sandboxing)

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Thx for the info, then it is like that.

Here is the goal proposal

phabricator.kde.org/T17370

Tbh, #bubblewrap would need to be fixed drastically to be as secure as the #Android #sandbox. And (I am not sure yet) I think even #Snaps are more secure (on #Ubuntu with #Apparmor patches) than #Flatpak with the current system.

As far as I understood, sandboxing needs to happen in #userspace, with tools like #fuse doing the work while being restricted by #MAC like #SELinux or Apparmor.

phabricator.kde.org⚓ T17370 Sandbox all the things!
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@Rhababerbarbar @kde@lemmy.kde.social

That is the proposal page. Of all proposals, and there are always quite few, the community votes and selects three to work on for two years. This one was not selected.