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Today, the famous sandbox-game Minecraft officially transferred from the beta testing stage in the release. The game is a sandbox, giving the player a chance to build from different blocks in 3D whatever he wants, but it has many RPG elements. Development of the game was launched in May 2009 and has since conducted a very active, and now, after more than 2 years of a version that developers considered worthy enough stable and functional, to go down in history as the first release. In the beginning, the game is a sandbox for the three-dimensional pixel-art, which it remained available in the free version of Classic. But now the game looks more like a RPG, in it there were monsters, magic, NPC in the villages, and much more, which adds to the game similar to Dwarf Fortress. Minecraft also heavily influenced by games such as Dungeon Keeper and Infiniminer. The game is a commercial value – 19.95 euros.
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The new OpenSSH version 5.9 provides a number of improvements and new features. Among them is especially emphasized the possibility, the child process that performs the authentication to run in a sandbox.

The OpenSSH (SSH stands for Secure Shell) is a secure telnet replacement, the connections between two computers is encrypted. The package consists of a server and a client program and auxiliary programs. In addition, it supports secure FTP (SFTP) and Secure Copy to other computers (SCP).

For ten years OpenSSH already offers the possibility of the child processes that enable the user login to run under a separate, less-privileged user account. Thus, only the main process, which by default listens on port 22 for connections to run with root privileges.

The code in question is compact and correspondingly easy to secure against vulnerabilities. The much larger part of the new network connections and the authentication treated may be covered in the new version 5.9 even further. This is made ​​possible by the new directive Use Privilege Separation=sandbox . This makes the process run in a sandbox are allowed only in the specific system calls.
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GNU awk, a tool for processing text data with its own scripting language, is available in version 4.0.0 with new features.

The new version of GNU Awk (Gawk) brings the option “- sandbox” with. This prevents the writing of information into the file system and the executing operating system commands via the “system ()” function of the scripting language. The sandbox is used to protect data and system when the user executes awk scripts, where he was not familiar.
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