From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
To: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Icecat and ungoogled chromium in a container
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:04:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0009z9e.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4153f91f-a6f6-8e69-0a87-57227e2312b9@posteo.de>
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Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> would it be a significant improvement for security if I used
> Icecat and ungoogled chromium always in a container?
> (I am using Icecat with the Tor browser)
I’m not sure about security of a container there — it could help if
there’s an unpatched vulnerability in icecat, but not so much otherwise.
But what can already help a lot is having a separate profile. Here’s an
example script that creates a locked-down profile on the fly:
https://github.com/hyphanet/browser/blob/main/freenetbrowser.in#L177
Best wishes,
Arne
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-01 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-01 16:30 Icecat and ungoogled chromium in a container Gottfried
2023-03-01 17:04 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2023-03-02 14:27 ` Gottfried
2023-03-02 19:43 ` Wojtek Kosior via
2023-03-27 13:00 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-03-03 14:52 ` Philip McGrath
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