SpaceX’s anti-hacker tech powers UK launch of security startup Technology originally developed to keep Chinese hackers from stealing SpaceX's secrets more than a decade ago has become the centrepiece of a browser isolation security startup. Branden Spikes, the chief exec of Spikes Security, spent 15 years as the technological right hand of Elon Musk at startups including PayPal, Tesla and …
Run on a separate machine and with more modest compatibility goals than a sandboxed desktop browser so probably a reduced attack surface so likely safer. But at core won't much of its present security be down to obscurity - e.g. If MS and Google both adopted it then it would face the level of attacks currently breaking their browser sandboxes all too often?
Mongo wrote: "it would face the level of attacks currently breaking..." That is missing the point. The browser is isolated in the DMZ - even if a hack gets out of the browser and into the host machine it can't do any harm since the connection between the server and the internal network only allows graphics, mouse and keyboard data to flow - no hacker software can get through that connection. At worst the hacker could intercept your browsing sessions and steal web site passwords etc, but it still could not get into the internal network.
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