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How do i you decide whats safe to run

I recently ran Gossa on my home server using Docker, mounting it to a folder. Since I used rootless Docker, I was curious - if Gossa were to be a virus, would I have been infected? Have any of you had experience with Gossa?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

where you have decent trust in the software you’re running.

I generally say that containers and traditional UNIX users are good enough isolation for "mostly trusted" software. Basically I know that they aren't going to actively try to escalate their privilege but may contain bugs that would cause problems without any isolation.

Of course it always depends on your risk. If you are handing sensitive user data and run lots of different services on the same host you may start to worry about remote code execution vulnerabilities and will be interested in stronger isolation so that a RCE in any one service doesn't allow escalation to access all data being processed by other services on the host.