Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderQubes seems to be YASTVOS (Yet Another Security Through Virtualization OS). While I'm not going to disagree that Xen vms represent a smaller attack surface than most current installations, that doesn't mean there won't be bugs. If you shift everyone to a solution like this, guaranteed people will be breaking out of it. VMware has had a number of vm escapes. The other problem is these OS's often don't seem to get very far. Seems like Qubes is launching beta…
Am I wrong in thinking that this is sort of like worrying about leaving the kettle-on while you're falling from a skyscraper? Sure, if you have a rogue application on your computer, it can access the GUI of a program whose security is critical (e.g: a password manager), but even if all the GUI were isolated, you've still got a rogue program on your comp. All the security posts I've ever read have pretty much told me that once you're…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 253
- Total comments
- 131
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-04-23 | The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolationFirst breakout · Best thread | wglb | 126 | 47 |
| 2015-03-10 | The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011) | monort | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-03-05 | The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011)Latest 20+ point return | dandelion_lover | 121 | 84 |
| 2017-07-08 | The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011) | theGimp | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-08-14 | The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011) | timeoperator | 2 | 0 |