{"id":34549,"date":"2021-12-27T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34549"},"modified":"2021-12-27T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:37:02","slug":"firefox-95s-rlbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/27\/firefox-95s-rlbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 95&rsquo;s RLBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/the-new-firefox-95-might-be-the-most-secure-web-browser-on-the-market\/\">Jack Wallen<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=29508638\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/12\/10\/firefox-95-secure-sandboxing-macos\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/the-new-firefox-95-might-be-the-most-secure-web-browser-on-the-market\/\"><p>RLBox is a new method of sandboxing, which makes it easy to efficiently isolate subcomponents and make Firefox more secure. RLBox uses WebAssembly to isolate possible buggy code.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>How RLBox works is complicated, but it breaks down by first compiling a process into WebAssembly, and then the converted process is then re-converted into native code. What this does is prevent code from moving between different portions of a program and limits access to only specific areas of system memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Wallen (via Hacker News, MacRumors): RLBox is a new method of sandboxing, which makes it easy to efficiently isolate subcomponents and make Firefox more secure. RLBox uses WebAssembly to isolate possible buggy code. [&#8230;] How RLBox works is complicated, but it breaks down by first compiling a process into WebAssembly, and then the converted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-12-27T18:37:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"3257bf08-0400-4c62-a054-f8041ff98f36","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-12-27T18:37:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMle_CAQATGKgVPgEH_mPNg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[279,30,32,2077,355,48,1231],"class_list":["post-34549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-12","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-webassembly"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34550,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34549\/revisions\/34550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}