[tor-talk] Is there a way to use internet in a sandbox environment? (Linux)

[blacklight447 at tutanota.com]

You could also try to run whonix, which you can also use as a sort of sandbox.

Apr 2, 2019, 1:01 PM by npdflr at zoho.com:

> Hi Jim,
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> Can you elaborate or give example on how to run a live CD/DVD for internet access.
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> One has to install an OS on the CD/DVD and there needs to be some means for CD/DVD to access a network-specific firmware etc for using the internet, am I right?
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> ---- On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:13:43 -0700 Jim <> jimmymac at copper.net <mailto:jimmymac at copper.net>> > wrote ----
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> Ben Tasker wrote:
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>> But don't, please, follow the suggestion of using root for routine
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>> non-internet tasks. You should use privileged accounts only when you
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>> actually require that level of privilege. Also keep in mind that while
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>> malware running as an unpriviliged user cannot (generally) hose the system,
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>> it can still steal/corrupt whatever data that user has access to. Unless
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>> this is a shared system, you probably care more about that data than the OS
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>> files themselves.
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> Ben is right about not using root for routine tasks.  But you can
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> still follow your original idea by creating one or more
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> *nonprivileged* accounts for non-internet tasks.  Even w/o using
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> VMs you can block these accounts from *initiating* connections to
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> the Internet with iptables rules.  If you set up permissions
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> correctly, then so long as malware does not achieve root level
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> privilege the information in these non-internet accounts should
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> remain safe.  So you have a range of options from no VMs to fully
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> isolated VMs on separate machines to running a live CD/DVD for
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> internet access.
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> HTH
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> Jim
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