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Capsicum is part of FreeBSD itself so it doesn't have to be listed separately in the list of Open Source Software.

I'm also surprised anyone thought it was using ASLR -- it's a huge effort to get that completed and working sanely, which is being handled by the HardenedBSD folks. Their work didn't even exist when the PS4 was released.

I think it's possible for Sony to backport it and use it, but seems unlikely they would do that at this stage.

I'd also like to point out that FreeBSD jails on PS4 means there are ~23 million units in the wild deploying that technology. Will take quite a while for Docker containers to catch up, haha :-)




The article says userspace ASLR is used, and indeed presented a speed bump along the way.


I think it's unlikely they would fork from the upstream FreeBSD kernel that much without contributing ASLR back. They would end up having to repeat it all again for Playstation 5.

Stranger things have happened, though.




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