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QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system

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176 points TheFreim | 2 comments | 11 Jul 23 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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legrande ◴[11 Jul 23 19:15 UTC] No.36685913[source]▶
What kind of threat model requires someone to use Qubes? I know Snowden uses it and there's even a testimonial of him on the Qubes site recommending it. Is this for people on 'lists' or are high value targets because they visited the wrong site or said something the authorities didn't like and their machines are now being targeted?
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1. fsflover ◴[11 Jul 23 19:20 UTC] No.36685977[source]▶
I would say, almost anyone running anything untrusted from time to time can benefit from the strong hardware virtualization.

Qubes is my daily driver by the way. My attempt of explaining it to a layman: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/how-to-pitch-qubes-os/4499/15

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2. Syonyk ◴[11 Jul 23 19:54 UTC] No.36686431[source]▶
And "anything untrusted" includes "any use of the internet."

Browser escapes are cheap enough and common enough that we've seen malware delivered through advertising networks before.