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Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published

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441 points longcat | 2 comments | 27 Aug 25 01:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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vorgol ◴[27 Aug 25 13:00 UTC] No.45039050[source]▶
OSs need to stop letting applications have a free reign of all the files on the file system by default. Some apps come with apparmor/selinux profiles and firejail is also a solution. But the UX needs to change.
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1. anthk ◴[27 Aug 25 16:01 UTC] No.45041459[source]▶
Learn to use bubblewrap with small chroot.
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2. eyberg ◴[27 Aug 25 17:30 UTC] No.45042486[source]▶
Bubblewrap has refused to fix known security issues in its codebase and shouldn't be used.