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QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system
I've been using Qubes for the past 2 years while going to school, and I found it really fun and helpful. A lot of professors had me download random closed source software from random websites during the pandemic, and it was easier to download it to a VM than to convince them about Free Software. More than that though it's been really helpful just for my own workflow. I can hit a keybind and start working from essentially a fresh linux install. It's easier to stay on task when each VM is designed to only do one kind of task. It's also nice having debian, fedora, windows, kali, and whonix all easily accessible on the same machine.
The main sticking point for me is that Qubes is reasonably secure from _myself_. I make mistakes. I first started using linux with an Ubuntu install that I broke a year later because I accidentally added in a space when typing `rm -rf ~/Arduino` which made it `rm -rf ~ /Arduino`. On Qubes I can `sudo rm -rf /` on the VM I'm using right now and not break a sweat. I have a keybind to spawn a disposable "airgapped" VM to deal with sensitive or untrusted data, and it helps knowing that even if I mess up with whatever I'm doing, the VM will keep everything reasonably contained.
Some cool things that Qubes has outside of just VMs are its features enabled by the communication between VMs. Notable ones are Split GPG (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/split-gpg/) which let you use a VM as if it were a smartcard for GPG and Split SSH (https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs...) which let you isolate your private SSH keys from your VM running your SSH client.
There are some sticking points around Qubes. For instance, I use Tailscale to connect my computers to each other from anywhere. Tailscale's install scripts add their keys to my VM's package manager for updates and installs. The proper way to do this in Qubes is to clone a TemplateVM, run Tailscale's install script, update, install, and then base an AppVM off of it. But that creates an entire new OS taking up storage and requiring updates. You can hack a way around this in an AppVM which saves a considerable amount of space, but it takes a lot of upfront time to do and requires you to manually update it.
Another sticking point is hardware acceleration. The desktop environment has access to hardware acceleration, so it runs fine, but opening videos in AppVMs is all software decoded. I'm on a Thinkpad T580 and it can run 1080p videos, but the fans turn on and can't do 4K. When I want to game or do something GPU heavy I either stream from my tower or completely switch over.
Overall, I'm really happy with Qubes and I'm planning to stick with it on my laptops.
- Installing Windows 10 as a Qube. The install crashes at 10% in the "Getting files ready for installation" stage
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GPU passthrough on Qubes?
I can't speak to 17+ GPUs - but have successfully passed through a single high-end GPU for gaming via following these instructions: https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/customization/gaming-hvm.md
- Qubes OS new templates?
- Installer crashes at last moment ?
- Dual-booting Qubes and a Debian distro?
- ArchQubes?
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Windows 7, 10, or 11 vm in Qubes-Os
Yes its possible. But check here under "Audio Support", also says at the bottom that windows 7, 10 & 11 are fully supported. As for how to install Windows, here. And installing Windows 11 by disabling the TPM check: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/windows-11-in-qubes/6759/8.
- ISO download for HVM failing on all VMs
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VPN Killswitch?
Follow this guide https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/configuration/vpn.md
proton-bridge
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ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 – Still Secure and Private?
That isn't really fair. If you read the article, protonmail essentially supplied the FBI the recovery email of the account. This is metadata that protonmail must have that isn't encrypted by the user for obvious reasons.
Regarding the "MITM" for every email sent, this is related to their "bridge" software which allows regular IMAP/SMTP software to use Proton Mail. This software must edit the emails to encrypt them in their scheme.
This software is open source and can be inspected and/or built locally. https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge
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ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
> This appears to be related to a behaviour that ProtonMail has of dropping all plaintext email if any mime-encoded parts exist.
https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/26#issuec...
I'm actually more shocked knowing that they drop plain text if there is a mime-encoded part (e.g. HTML). Just verified that all mails imported from GMail and all newer mails I received in PM only have the HTML part now, while GMail shows both HTML and plain text parts in message source. Great, now if I want to use a text-only client to read those mails in the future, I won't be able to.
Now I honestly wonder, how did they think this is something okay to mess up? Is there just no usable email hosting service for someone that want their mails not touched and also stored securely? Like, this is not even going to save storage space for PM - I'm paying for my storage.
- Proton Mail (Bridge) for High Sierra Mac
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Bridge V3 Cache
Repository here https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge
- People over-emphasize the slow pace of update rollout, and under-emphasize that once the updates roll out they rarely break or malfunction
- Moving emails from Proton Mail.
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FYI, Protonmail Bridge tries to silently install a sketchy CA cert in your OS cert store
The privkey is never loaded out of the keychain. Rather, it acquires a handle to the privkey and relies on the keychain to carry out cryptographical operations. (https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/blob/master/pkg/keychain/helper_darwin.go and https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/blob/master/pkg/keychain/keychain_darwin.go)
- How's the linux bridge coming along; and also, how do I stay on the main website?!
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Mails missing in MacOS Mail
Oh yes. The Bridge shouldn’t have been marketed as stable for the past years because of this issue (see issue #220 on Github, reported 2021-09-29). It’s fixed in Bridge 3.0.
What are some alternatives?
Qubes-vpn-support - VPN configuration in Qubes OS
hydroxide - A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge
qubes-app-split-browser - Tor Browser (or Firefox) in a Qubes OS disposable, with persistent bookmarks and login credentials
FreeCAD_assembly3 - Experimental attempt for the next generation assembly workbench for FreeCAD
bitmap-fonts - Monospaced bitmap fonts for X11, good for terminal use.
proton-bridge - ProtonMail Bridge application
qubes-windows-tools-cross - Qubes Windows Tools build with mingw, wine and qubes-builder
aws-lambda-ses-forwarder - Serverless email forwarding using AWS Lambda and SES
qubes-issues - The Qubes OS Project issue tracker
wildduck - Opinionated email server
qubes-tunnel - Integration of vpn tunnels for Qubes OS
mCaptcha - A no-nonsense CAPTCHA system with seamless UX | Backend component