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Qubes is wonderful. I read HN and surf the web/social in a dvm - disposable vm, so if you are exploited, not only is it contained to the vm, it’s contained to t
by mapgrep 5y ago
Qubes is wonderful. I read HN and surf the web/social in a dvm - disposable vm, so if you are exploited, not only is it contained to the vm, it’s contained to the vm until you close it, at which point all changes are discarded.
(Modulo any Xen exploits that make it through and affect Qubes. no security is perfect.)
- fsflover 5y ago> Modulo any Xen exploits that make it through and affect Qubes By the way, thanks to the clever Qubes design, quite few Xen exploits affect Qubes OS [0]. Especially after 4.0 with VT-d hardware virtualization [1]. [0] https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/ https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/ [1] https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/07/31/qubes-40-rc1/#fully-virtualized-vms-for-better-isolation https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/07/31/qubes-40-rc1/#fully...