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Comment by westurner

3 days ago

TIL about Monty. A number of people have tried to sandbox [python,] using python and user space; but ultimately they've all concluded that you can't sandbox python with python.

Virtual Machines are a better workload isolation boundary than Containers are a better workload isolation boundary than bubblewrap and a WASM runtime.

eWASM has costed opcodes; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825026 re: eWASM and costed opcodes for agent efficiency

> How do these userspace policies compare to MAC and DAC implementations like SELinux AVC, AppArmor, Systemd SyscallFilter, and seccomp with containers for example?

> [ containers/bubblewrap#sandboxing , cloudflare/workerd, wasmtime-mte, ]

"Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137501

microsandbox/microsandbox: https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox :

> opensource self-hosted sandboxes for ai agents