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Security: Can you escape the Virtualization cave, caveman?



Yeah, I too didn't get it until the PaulDotCom geeks explained what it was.

Think of virtualization as a cave, and you are trapped inside (just like the "guest" OS). Outside the cave there is a giagantic monster. Everytime you try to escape from the cave, you get squashed, pushed back in, or even have your legs cut off and re-attached facing the opposite way. No matter what you do, you can't escape the cave, unless of course your name is Tom Liston...


He also points to the security doc by a Google employee , which we found in the morning today. (See below). Anyways interesting folks doing interesting stuff, check'em out.
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