European Parliamentary Research Service Recommends Qubes

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Andrew

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Apr 27, 2015, 2:33:42 PM4/27/15
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See:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/527409/EPRS_STU%282015%29527409_REV1_EN.pdf,
page 51. It appears along with OpenBSD and TAILS as a "Security and
Privacy Aware OS" (page 60).

Note they call it, "Qube OS", but it's a start, anyway.

Shout out to CB, who probably made this happen ;).
Andrew

WhonixQubes

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Apr 27, 2015, 3:12:30 PM4/27/15
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Very nice. Thanks for sharing, Andrew! :)

Great work Caspar.

WhonixQubes

Iestyn Best

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Apr 27, 2015, 7:36:50 PM4/27/15
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Great to be recognized.

Congratulations.

inf...@gmail.com

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May 3, 2015, 2:40:25 PM5/3/15
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yes, I briefed them :-)

I have got my no-brainer pitch down to about 10 mins for security literate folks, and they are amazed Qubes exists, and is running FLOSS code ;-)

CB

Axon

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May 4, 2015, 7:58:11 AM5/4/15
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Very interesting. Thank you for doing this. Out of curiosity, why are
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Caspar Bowden

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May 4, 2015, 8:53:23 AM5/4/15
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On 05/04/15 13:58, Axon wrote:
> inf...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Monday, 27 April 2015 21:12:30 UTC+2, WhonixQubes wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2015-04-27 6:33 pm, Andrew wrote:
> >>> See:
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/527409/EPRS_STU%282015%29527409_REV1_EN.pdf,
> >>
> >>
> >>> page 51. It appears along with OpenBSD and TAILS as a
> >>> "Security and Privacy Aware OS" (page 60).
> >>>
> >>> Note they call it, "Qube OS", but it's a start, anyway.
> >>>
> >>> Shout out to CB, who probably made this happen ;). Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >> Very nice. Thanks for sharing, Andrew! :)
> >>
> >> Great work Caspar.
> >>
>
> > yes, I briefed them :-)
>
> > I have got my no-brainer pitch down to about 10 mins for security
> > literate folks, and they are amazed Qubes exists, and is running
> > FLOSS code ;-)
>
> > CB
>
>
> Very interesting. Thank you for doing this. Out of curiosity, why are
> they so amazed that Qubes exists?

I think it's that most security people in bureaucracies have been
brainwashed (ahem, significantly by MSFT "trustworthy computing"
propaganda in 2000s, of which I used to be a subversive or at least
kidding-myself part, sorry about that) to ignore the monoculture and
just cope with vulns as they come.

When they understand the Qubes security model, they scratch their heads
at it's brilliance, then say "you mean someone has really implented
that, and it works now ?..."

Caspar
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