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fsfloveryesterday at 8:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

Here you go: https://qubes-os.org.


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Barbingyesterday at 8:59 PM

>Why Qubes OS?

>Physical isolation is a given safeguard that the digital world lacks

>In our digital lives, the situation is quite different: All of our activities typically happen on a single device. This causes us to worry about whether it’s safe to click on a link or install an app, since being hacked imperils our entire digital existence.

>Qubes eliminates this concern by allowing us to divide a device into many compartments, much as we divide a physical building into many rooms. …

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https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/intro.html

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handednessyesterday at 11:34 PM

You should note that improperly using Qubes OS, creating a New Identity inside of Tor Browser, even in a disposable Whonix workstation VM, would leave one vulnerable to this.

A user would have to manually start a new disposable VM for each identity.