Disposable netvm?

Bill Wether

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May 28, 2016, 5:25:12 AM5/28/16

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It seems to me that it would improve Qubes security if sys-net were a dispVM. That way, whatever nasties one picked up from the hotel wifi, for instance, would be gone at the next boot.

Thoughts?

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BillW

Andrew David Wong

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May 28, 2016, 6:31:07 AM5/28/16

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There's been a lot of discussion about this lately. In brief:
This (or something close) is planned for Qubes 4.0. For details,
see here:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/866#issuecomment-
220495485

https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-
devel/20160517124118.GK25975%40mail-itl

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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raah...@gmail.com

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May 29, 2016, 12:59:04 AM5/29/16

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great idea!

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