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I believe that is tautologically true, and thus not a very useful framing.

Security is obviously a continuum (eg. you can even have a bug in your IPMI FW, and a network packet could break in without any interaction with the OS; or there could be a HW bug too), but there is a discrete "jump" between containers and VMs to the extent that it is useful to call one a security boundary and the other not. Just like a firewall is a security boundary even if it can have security bugs.

Whether this jump between exploitable surface area warrants this distinction is what the point is: many believe it does.



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