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Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

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441 points ploggingdev | 1 comments | 19 Nov 17 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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magnat ◴[19 Nov 17 19:48 UTC] No.15735557[source]▶
Joanna's (Qubes OS Founder) blog [1] is a gold mine when it comes to hardware-software boundary security. Especially "State considered harmful" [2] and "x86 considered harmful" [3] papers are eye-openers.

[1] https://blog.invisiblethings.org/

[2] https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/state_harmful.p...

[3] https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf

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jstewartmobile ◴[19 Nov 17 21:21 UTC] No.15735998[source]▶
That's why I don't get Qubes. She knows what a steaming pile PC hardware is, and decides to write a spinoff OS for it???

Seems like she'd have more effect designing hardware.

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1. nickik ◴[19 Nov 17 22:41 UTC] No.15736356[source]▶
It is a lot easier to do the best you can with tech that exists. Building a completly new type of computer and and OS is not easy.

She is working on hardware but that is not as easy to bring into the wider world.