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RE: QubesOS 3.2 - A reasonably secure operating system [Paranoid? Read this!]

in #qubesos8 years ago

Looks interesting, but I'll probably stick with Ubuntu for now. I realise there are potential issues, but I'm fairly careful. I'll see if I can find time to look at it though. Perhaps someone can package it in an easier to use form.

I do worry about web security. It only takes one browser vulnerability to expose you. I guess I could run the browser in a VM to be more secure.

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Found this piece on VMs https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/getting-hacked-doesnt-bad/

I may at least set up a VM for some of my browsing. It's all useful experience.

Great article :)

Ubuntu does alright, and its infinitely better then windows 10 in terms of security & privacy out of the box :)
Not a big fan of canonical though, and I have some fears about the future directions they could take it, but for now I still recommend it because it usually just works..

Web security is the main way most people get infected, but even just running the browser inside virtualbox would be a massive upgrade over the average setup :)

On that topic, I also use ublock origin in my firefox installs to stop random javascript on every site, and I manually approve each one for my "trusted" browser.

I also have some untrusted disposable browsers, running everything like flash and java applets and pushing traffic via Burp proxy so I can intercept traffic whenever I want - tis nice having the option always available :)

I need to have a look at ublock origin. I use Adblock, but I know that's not perfect. I do allow ads on some sites I want to support, but I hear about malicious code in some ads. I used to run NoScript, but that could be a pain at times. It's amazing how much code some sites run.

I swapped from adblock to ublock because it seems to have some extra features and less memory usage :)

I noticed even my banks website loads dozens of external js files and facebook/twitter etc..