ORWL Tamper-Proof Qubes PC - Pro & Cons?

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Hello,

ORWL 'Tamper-Proof' PC tries to give a new level of "physical protection" with it security mesh around the PC. If this is broken the encryption key of the disc get wiped.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/orwl-secure-microcontrollers-tampering-protection,32690.html

Would this be a good device to run a web-server under qubes in a normal unprotected environment (instead inside a data center)?

What are the Pro and Cons due to a higher level of Cybersecurity?

Nice is the idea to get an extra level of physical protection with a mix between authentication, encryption, wipeing, security chip and an active mesh. But always you must be aware of any kind of backdoors, many things look quite well in the first view, but others really work to harden the system substancially.

So I hope all security engineering was well for the ORWL-Qubes PC (but please insert 64 or 32 GB of RAM).

Kind Regards

[Andrew David Wong]

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Joanna recently wrote a post about ORWL:

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2016/09/03/thoughts-about-orwl.html

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

Merci for sharing this artikel.

Here the link to some similar "security mesh" the PEP foil to protect some hardware.

Protecting Electronic Products

https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/fields-of-expertise/product-protection/pep-protecting-electronic-products.html

This should also be prevent, in a smart setup, that hardware-implantates can included on the shipping (most hardware have no secure delivering service).

Perhaps PEP will be introduced in some way for QubesOS hardware.

Kind Regards