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		jmclnx 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website d... I saw nothing of note on OpenBSD. I added the plugin and it prompted me an attempt was made to scan the network, it said it blocked the scan SO, I guess that is going to be used on all my firefox runs.

uticus 4 months ago [–]

Pushing the burden of network permissions management outside the browser, to the OS? Heresy!

To be serious, this has introduced me to sandboxing on BSD via pledge [0] and comparisons against Linux seccomp [1] - thank you!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17289654

[1] https://kristaps.bsd.lv/devsecflops/ (submission by same poster at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264021)

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