F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
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Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#2Woah, I was not expecting that. Not only is it in Python but it's nice Python, not the bastardized "I can write C, let's try Python" style you often see from big companies.
Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#3Woah, I was not expecting that. Not only is it in Python but it's nice Python, not the bastardized "I can write C, let's try Python" style you often see from big companies.
I don't write python but what makes it nice python?
Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#4Woah, I was not expecting that. Not only is it in Python but it's nice Python, not the bastardized "I can write C, let's try Python" style you often see from big companies.
I don't write python but what makes it nice python?
It uses classes, magic methods where appropriate, is well documented, does its loops in a pythonic way; lots of things! It's taking advantage of idiomatic python, as opposed to simply using python as a C-style hammer.
Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#5Slightly off topic, but how well do sandbox execution environments handle malware that only execute if a VM is not detected? AFAIK most virtualization environments are easily detectable by the guest.
Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#6Woah, I was not expecting that. Not only is it in Python but it's nice Python, not the bastardized "I can write C, let's try Python" style you often see from big companies.
As a C programmer who "tried" Python, I feel offended. I wrote substantial OO code using list comperhensions and other things pythonic. I am also a functional programming affectionado, though a realist, not a fan. Don't label people. Speak against companies mismanaging people by driving them to write low quality code. Be open and promote useful programming concepts and tools.
P.S. Long live static typing. Down with EcmaScript.
Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#7Slightly off topic, but how well do sandbox execution environments handle malware that only execute if a VM is not detected? AFAIK most virtualization environments are easily detectable by the guest.
The sandbox just provides environment separation to run automated tests independently. How you define the environment, and how malware may react to it, is up to the user. (However, the 'hooks' could in theory be written to circumvent or detect malware looking for signs of a guest VM)
Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#8Woah, I was not expecting that. Not only is it in Python but it's nice Python, not the bastardized "I can write C, let's try Python" style you often see from big companies.
That style of Python (the C-oriented, shall we say?) is responsible for a lot of "Python is too slow" comments. I've seen code from big projects where string concatenation and manipulation was done one character at a time...
Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#9Woah, I was not expecting that. Not only is it in Python but it's nice Python, not the bastardized "I can write C, let's try Python" style you often see from big companies.
As a C programmer who "tried" Python, I feel offended. I wrote substantial OO code using list comperhensions and other things pythonic. I am also a functional programming affectionado, though a realist, not a fan. Don't label people. Speak against companies mismanaging people by driving them to write low quality code. Be open and promote useful programming concepts and tools. P.S. Long live static typing. Down with E…
I'm sorry you feel offended but my comment was not labelling anyone, merely stating surprise that a company I did not know used Python produced a large, idiomatic Python project seemingly out of the blue. Similar projects at other companies might have produced huge OOP classes with LotsOfCamelCase, c-style for loops and other such constructs. Kudos to them and the author.
> Speak against companies mismanaging people by driving them to write low quality code
I don't think that's relevant to my comment, but I would say that it's not some company overlord making people churn out non-idomatic Python code.
Re: F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment
#10What are the advantages of using this over Cuckoo Sandbox, or Anubis?