Part of the SecureDrop Workstation project (currently in a closed-beta pilot phase), SecureDrop Client uses @QubesOS to help journalists safely communicate with sources. General availability is planned later this year!
#ViernesDeEscritorio Llevo unos días utilizando #QubesOS una distribución basada en la seguridad de tus datos, pero no tanto en el anonimato para eso se tendrían que seguir algunas consideraciones extra (claro que puedes hacer que todo corra por Tor), la verdad me parece interesante trabajar todo por máquinas virtuales separadas y lo más “Difícil” fue acostumbrarme que las MV sufren un tipo de amnesia de lo que le instalaste al hacer reboot pero eso se resuelve instalando en las plantillas base
@tuneintodetuned@backmota que me gustó eso de que se borra lo que instales fuera del Témplate ayuda a probar cosas o paquetes que no sabes si van a matar tu workflow o hasta tu distro 😅
There's still a lot to do. For example, they can't really be used for system appvms, but I've been using a manually built template for a year, and it's been great!
The last few major hardware vulnerabilities all had it as a pretty central part of exploitation.
Is the slight gain in performance worth the #security tradeoff? I don't think so.
For Qubes, it's possible to ensure only threads from the same #Xen VM/trust-domain run collocated on a core, but for more conventional OSes, that's much harder to guarantee.
Yesssss! After fighting with this for a month, my laptop is back running with #qubesos. I highly recommend #novacustom laptops. Great customer service.
My main #Qubes hardware had problems (a #NUC with a fan malfunction) and I had to replace it. And because of the announcement of "4.2 rc" I was brave and installed that one....
I had ordered my #Librem 14 a few weeks before Christmas and it has been hard to be #patient. I finally got it; the build quality is excellent!
I ordered it to be preinstalled with #QubesOS, though I haven't used Qubes before. At first glance, the learning curve appears somewhat steep, but I'm hoping it is worthwhile for the added security.
I think it is funny that, despite the advances in computing hardware/software, we've come full circle back to waiting 10-15 seconds for an app to boot 😆
@pixelatedfist Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Would it help me know what kind of difficulties you found? I understand that at hardware level everything worked, right?
@pixelatedfist I understand, thank you very much for the information. I'll review that copying theme between machines because I saw that it was possible in some video.
Actually I have an external monitoring solution (#Zabbix in this case) and I want to monitor system properties like the motherboard temperature and disk #SMART data....
