63K views · Sep 4, 2018 · 51:13 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2019–2022
Micah Lee's Circle of HOPE 2018 talk on Qubes OS, which isolates activities in separate virtual machines so one compromise, such as a bad PDF or USB stick, does not expose everything. He gives an overview timed around the Qubes 4.0 release.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as a great overview of Qubes OS and how its compartmentalization works in practice.
“This talk(ii) from Micah Lee when 4.0 launched is a great overview/preview.”HN comment, 2022
“Micah Lee held a great overview talk at HOPE 2018”
Overview talk on Qubes OS from HOPE 2018
If you are paranoid about something like this happening, just use link . all usb devices are jailed in a non-networked vm by default. In general, if what you do warrants that level of paranoia, qubes will help you massively. Micah Lee held a great overview talk at HOPE 2018: this video
“This talk(ii) from Micah Lee when 4.0 launched is a great overview/preview.”
Great overview of Qubes OS around the 4.0 launch
In order of decreasing isolation: For hardware and system's security QubesOS(i) is superb for isolation at the (virtual)machine layer. This talk(ii) from Micah Lee when 4.0 launched is a great overview/preview. It's my daily driver, and I find it indispensable. For software security any standard linux distro you can utilize encrypted chroots(iii). This is how things like crouton(iv) work on ChromiumOS. For library isolation you could utilise virtual environments like virtualenv for python. ( or nodenv(v) for 'Node libraries') (i) link (ii) this video (iii) link (iv) link (v) link
“Micah Lee did a talk about how he does it.”
Micah Lee explains using Tor with a VPN and paying anonymously
Micah Lee did a talk about how he does it. In essence he uses Tor to connect to the VPN. He also explains how to pay for the VPN anonymously. I think it was part of his Qubes OS talk: this video
