My farewell to Qubes OS!

[Joanna Rutkowska]

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Hello Qubes devs and users!

It's been nearly 9 years[*] since I sent the first internal email
within ITL to Rafał Wojtczuk and Alex Tereshkin with the original idea
for making Qubes OS. Shortly after this, we started drafting the
original architecture and writing some early PoC code...

Today, I've made an announcement I'm switching focus to another area
of work and joining the Golem Project as a Chief {Strategy, Security}
Officer:

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter/

https://blog.golemproject.net/joanna-rutkowska-joins-golem-as-chief-strategy-security-officer-13f12f0c11c0

I'd like to thank all the people who made Qubes OS possible, which
includes: the whole ITL team, all the community contributors, and, of
course, all the Qubes OS users!

Qubes OS will continue under the lead of Marek Marczykowski-Górecki,
who have been a de-facto lead for all the day-to-day development for
quite some time already!

Thanks, Marek! Thank you, all!

Cheers,
joanna.

[*] FWIW, the exact date was November 11th, 2009.
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[unman]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:21:44PM +0200, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
> Hello Qubes devs and users!
>
> It's been nearly 9 years[*] since I sent the first internal email
> within ITL to Rafał Wojtczuk and Alex Tereshkin with the original idea
> for making Qubes OS. Shortly after this, we started drafting the
> original architecture and writing some early PoC code...
>
> Today, I've made an announcement I'm switching focus to another area
> of work and joining the Golem Project as a Chief {Strategy, Security}
> Officer:
>
> https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter/
>
> https://blog.golemproject.net/joanna-rutkowska-joins-golem-as-chief-strategy-security-officer-13f12f0c11c0
>
> I'd like to thank all the people who made Qubes OS possible, which
> includes: the whole ITL team, all the community contributors, and, of
> course, all the Qubes OS users!
>
> Qubes OS will continue under the lead of Marek Marczykowski-Górecki,
> who have been a de-facto lead for all the day-to-day development for
> quite some time already!
>
> Thanks, Marek! Thank you, all!
>
> Cheers,
> joanna.
>
> [*] FWIW, the exact date was November 11th, 2009.

Joanna

Sorry to see you go.
Thanks for all the work you have put in to make Qubes what it is today.
I'm glad to see that you'll still be using Qubes (and contributing, I'm sure.)
I am sure that Qubes will go on as succesful project and get wider
reach under Marek's lead.

Best of luck in Golem.

unman

[pieter lems]

I have not been a Qubes user for long now, but i want to thank you for your service. You are a true hero to the community. Thank you and good luck with your new adventure!!

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[qubenix]

Joanna Rutkowska:

> Hello Qubes devs and users!
>
> It's been nearly 9 years[*] since I sent the first internal email
> within ITL to Rafał Wojtczuk and Alex Tereshkin with the original idea
> for making Qubes OS. Shortly after this, we started drafting the
> original architecture and writing some early PoC code...
>
> Today, I've made an announcement I'm switching focus to another area
> of work and joining the Golem Project as a Chief {Strategy, Security}
> Officer:
>
> https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter/
>
> https://blog.golemproject.net/joanna-rutkowska-joins-golem-as-chief-strategy-security-officer-13f12f0c11c0
>
> I'd like to thank all the people who made Qubes OS possible, which
> includes: the whole ITL team, all the community contributors, and, of
> course, all the Qubes OS users!
>
> Qubes OS will continue under the lead of Marek Marczykowski-Górecki,
> who have been a de-facto lead for all the day-to-day development for
> quite some time already!
>
> Thanks, Marek! Thank you, all!
>
> Cheers,
> joanna.
>
> [*] FWIW, the exact date was November 11th, 2009.
>

Thank you for all your contributions. Your standards for security and
best practices have been an inspiration to me.

I wish you the best of luck and success in the future.

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[Raffaele Florio]

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Joanna,
Thanks, thanks and thanks again for all your work! I wish you all the best.


Cheers,
Raffaele.
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[Foppe de Haan]

thank you for your efforts on this, as well as your insights. :)

[donoban]

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On 10/25/18 12:21, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
> Hello Qubes devs and users!
>
> It's been nearly 9 years[*] since I sent the first internal email
> within ITL to Rafał Wojtczuk and Alex Tereshkin with the original
> idea for making Qubes OS. Shortly after this, we started drafting
> the original architecture and writing some early PoC code...
>
> Today, I've made an announcement I'm switching focus to another
> area of work and joining the Golem Project as a Chief {Strategy,
> Security}

Ouch I skipped this thread.

Sad to see you go. After writing Qubes Air post you go to protect the
cloud... Are you really leaving? :)

Thanks for all Joanna. Best of luck in Golem.
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[drogo]

Congratulations on your new position!!

I've been using Qubes for a couple of years, and just wanted to say THANK YOU for all your work on it! It really fits well with my usage model and makes my life a great deal more convenient.

Wishing you all the best in your new role!

[Ángel]

Thanks for all your work, Joanna!

Good luck at the Golem Project.
I am sure that having you on board it will feature many 'interesting'
properties that otherwise it wouldn't.

Remember to s/‎אמת/‎מת‎/ should you have trouble with the golems 😉

Best regards

[Tai...@gmx.com]

Nooooo!!!!!! comp-sci angel D: you are IMO the best computer security
person on the planet and now you leave us :'[

You can't trust the "cloud" - it will always be someone elses computer

SGX etc is DRM and a proprietary wintel technology that shouldn't be
trusted.

You should look in to intergricloud and FlexVER which are made by raptor
computing systems the makers of the OpenPOWER TALOS 2, Blackbird and
various libre firmwares.

Heres to hoping for qubes on POWER, which is the only owner controlled
high performance computing platform and freer than x86 ever was with
more documentation than x86 ever had.

[bm-2ctjsegdfzqngqw...@bitmessage.ch]

With only meager success in remote trustless computation (using
homomorphic encryption for example), a system that enables a reasonably
secure, robust, trust-less or verifiable design for general purpose
software and infrastructure actually running in the "cloud" is, in my
opinion, perhaps the hardest and most impactful problem in computer
security currently. If anyone can solve a problem like that in a
realistic way, leave it to Joanna!

[David Hobach]

On 10/27/18 7:26 PM, Tai...@gmx.com wrote:
> Nooooo!!!!!! comp-sci angel D: you are IMO the best computer security
> person on the planet and now you leave us :'[

I wasn't too happy neither to see the presumably main Qubes visionary
leave. Anyway I look forward to hear about new interesting topics from
Joanna in the future and thank her for everything she's done in the past
for the Qubes project!

And Marek has simply done an absolutely awesome job for the Qubes
project in the past so that I bet this project will prosper further.

> You can't trust the "cloud" - it will always be someone elses computer
>
> SGX etc is DRM and a proprietary wintel technology that shouldn't be
> trusted.

I'm also still waiting for someone to explain to me why I should trust
some chip manufacturers in the cloud more than I do on my desktop, but
that may well become one of these interesting topics...

[Haw...@bitmessage.ch]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:21:44 +0200
Joanna Rutkowska <joa...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:

[Lorenzo Lamas]

Sad to see you go Joanna, thank you for all the work you put into Qubes OS. Golem Project is lucky to have you!

[Sphere]

I've only been a minor part of the Qubes community and I am truly grateful that this kind of Operating System became a reality and am proud to say that I am using it as my daily driver. Thank you for all your contributions to the Qubes OS and I hope you well on your new journey :)

[Sven Semmler]

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Joanna,

thank you for the vision and the hard work! You actually changed the
world in a significant way for lots of people and to the better!

/Sven
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[cooloutac]

Definitely changed the world! Thankyou. Interesting project. Hope you continue to be a Qubes user, best of luck.