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What Is Qubes OS?

(www.qubes-os.org)
224 points LinuxBender | 7 comments | 09 Jul 22 16:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.72s | source | bottom
1. mumphster ◴[09 Jul 22 17:44 UTC] No.32037524[source]▶
Used extensively by Mullvad VPN for a lot of their infrastructure

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/15/mullvad-is-now-continu...

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2. cpach ◴[09 Jul 22 18:35 UTC] No.32037994[source]▶
Not really for infrastructure though? Still neat.
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3. smoldesu ◴[10 Jul 22 00:11 UTC] No.32040582[source]▶
I'd bet you dollars to donuts that they're using it to host Whonix nodes for their infrastructure.
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4. dfc ◴[10 Jul 22 02:31 UTC] No.32041317{3}[source]▶
Whonix nodes for what?
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5. Infernal ◴[10 Jul 22 03:40 UTC] No.32041635[source]▶
Knowing what I know of Qubes, and reading that post - I think they mean lots of folks are using it for their workstations. Qubes doesn't really make sense on a server, which is how I'd normally read "infrastructure".
6. octoberfranklin ◴[10 Jul 22 06:21 UTC] No.32042310[source]▶
So their sysadmins don't get hacked.

VPN providers are an annoyance for "collect it all" types. If they have the ingress servers' wireguard private keys, that annoyance goes away. Note that I use the term "annoyance", not "threat"... they sit in that gray zone where it's an irritant but not worth kidnapping people.

7. pyinstallwoes ◴[10 Jul 22 09:17 UTC] No.32043087{4}[source]▶
Ephemeral server instances?