From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091202031848.GB14703@nipl.net> References: <20091202031848.GB14703@nipl.net> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:06:49 +0900 Message-ID: From: Jun OKAJIMA To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Per Application Name Space Topicbox-Message-UUID: a8010384-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Sam Watkins wrote: > hi Jun, > > It looks interesting. Is there a windoze version under development? =EA= =80=80I suppose > there are suitable VM systems that run on windoze. =EA=80=80Of course you= r potential > user-base grows if you support windoze! =EA=80=80The VM could still run D= ebian or some > other OS of course. > Currently not. But maybe in the future? > Your page says it's safe to run an application even if it has viruses, bu= t I > think that is not right. =EA=80=80A virus with network access may start s= ending spam > email, committing cyber-crime (DDOS for example) or attacking the host co= mputer > or other hosts on your LAN. =EA=80=80Your virtualization may protect your= computer > somewhat, but it's still not safe to run an application with viruses. It = would > be more safe if networking is disabled for the VM. > You are right. Network limitation will be added in the future version. For example, you have to go through a proxy with security filtering or... --- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan. http://www.digitalinfra.co.jp/ http://www.secureclick.jp/