THE VIDEO SHELF · qubes os security
Qubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked
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 HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a great overview of Qubes OS and how its compartmentalization works in practice.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Micah Lee
- Topic
- qubes os security
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
waldfee on Hacker News · 2020-08
In Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connectedIn 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 …
isolatte on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Ask HN: How do you develop locally with privacy/security in mind?
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