one of those things you love about qubes!

[raah...@gmail.com]

that moment i realize i just hit allow permanently when i clicked in my pgl but then remember it don't matter cause as soon as I shut down the vm that setting is gone! haha.

[Desobediente]

- Never having to "log out" of websites again, and for the first time ever, the "remember me" option in a website is an actual option;

- Catch myself doing CTRL+SHIFT+C on everyone else's computer and grin alone.

--

iuri.neocities.org

[Alex]

Having my life organized AND handy:
- two always-open skype vm, one for personal contacts and one for work
- two always-open firefox instances, one with personal bookmarks/addons
and one for work
- two always-open thunderbird instances, one with personal
accounts/address books and one with business contacts
- knowing that, should a simple leak happen on a business vm, my
personal data is safe; should a simple leak happen on the personal vm,
my work data (e.g. ssh keys to servers) is safe; should the skype-vm be
owned via the skype monolith, everything will be safe apart from the
skype chat logs themselves
- knowing that it will be hard to absent-mindedly copy and paste
inappropriate content (say, pr0n) from a personal space to the work
space, or vice-versa (say, passwords to production servers / source code
/ etc.)

Sometimes it's hard to share a funny link on skype, have to remember the
penta-hotkey-combo (ctrl+c, ctrl+shift+c, alt+tab, ctrl+shift+v,
ctrl+v), but it makes me smile and feel a little safer from *my*
mistakes first, and from malware too.

When I evangelize about Qubes OS, I like to take on the "organize my
life" approach first, defending from the honest mistakes of the user,
and only then moving to the secure architecture it provides.

--
Alex

[raah...@gmail.com]

when you delete your vm and recreate it because there was a .0000001% chance that something stopped working due to malicious activity, because your paranoid and its that easy! ( and when you realize you've done this multiple times in a day haha)

when you realize you might of clicked a bad link, but then remember you were in a disposable vm (or it got blocked cause vm is https only)

when you are so paranoid you use whonix to compare the ssl certificate with the one your home ip sees, before entering sensitive information or credentials.

[raah...@gmail.com]

when you install a program in an appvm just to test it temporarily without worrying about it making any permanent changes.

when using fedora in qubes, dnf does not ruin your experience by hanging or preferring bad mirrors.

when you plug in a usb stick and it says attached to sys-usb on the screen.

[Andrew David Wong]

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These are all great! Would you all mind if we were to collect a list
of these quotations and possibly put them on the website? It would be
wonderful to showcase feedback from real users like this.

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

sure, you don't have to give me credit. You have to make one first :)

[Alex]

On 05/02/2016 07:43 PM, raah...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 2:39:10 AM UTC-4, Andrew David Wong wrote:
>
> These are all great! Would you all mind if we were to collect a list
> of these quotations and possibly put them on the website? It would be
> wonderful to showcase feedback from real users like this.
>
>

> sure, you don't have to give me credit. You have to make one first :)
>

It's ok for me too, if any of my quotes is worth it =)

--
Alex

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-05-02 10:43, raah...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 2:39:10 AM UTC-4, Andrew David Wong

> wrote: On 2016-05-01 20:50, raah...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> when you install a program in an appvm just to test it
>>>> temporarily without worrying about it making any permanent
>>>> changes.
>>>>
>>>> when using fedora in qubes, dnf does not ruin your
>>>> experience by hanging or preferring bad mirrors.
>>>>
>>>> when you plug in a usb stick and it says attached to sys-usb
>>>> on the screen.
>>>>
>>>>
>
> These are all great! Would you all mind if we were to collect a
> list of these quotations and possibly put them on the website? It
> would be wonderful to showcase feedback from real users like this.
>
>

> sure, you don't have to give me credit. You have to make one first
> :)
>

I honestly have too many to list! But here's a classic:

When you get an email with a suspicious attachment, but you don't mind
because all your attachments automatically open in DispVMs. :)

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

haha nice!

[Zrubi]

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On 05/02/2016 08:39 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote:

> These are all great! Would you all mind if we were to collect a
> list of these quotations and possibly put them on the website? It
> would be wonderful to showcase feedback from real users like this.

What I used to say about Qubes OS:

It is a general rule, that the user is the weakest link in every
system.It is the same in case of Qubes OS - but it will let you being
the weakest link, even if you are a highly skilled security expert.


- --
Zrubi

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[Gorka Alonso]

El viernes, 6 de mayo de 2016, 9:36:37 (UTC+2), Laszlo Zrubecz escribió:

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On 05/02/2016 08:39 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote:

> These are all great! Would you all mind if we were to collect a
> list of these quotations and possibly put them on the website? It
> would be wonderful to showcase feedback from real users like this.

What I used to say about Qubes OS:

It is a general rule, that the user is the weakest link in every
system.It is the same in case of Qubes OS - but it will let you being
the weakest link, even if you are a highly skilled security expert.

I remember once being asked why:

a) My personalVM had a firewall deny rule to access my internal lan NAS  and my bank address

b)  My nasVM had a deny rule to everything except my NAS (the same happened to my bankingVM).

My answer was... To enforce myself to do things right! 

:-)

Users, myself included, not only are the weakest link, but often we are lazy

[tristan....@gmail.com]

Hi,
May I ask how you setup a skype VM? did you install skype rpm into your base template, trusting the installer? or do you have a standalone? what is a minimal setup for skype, e.g. do you use a whole fedora, or is a minimal fedora with some extra packages more sensible? thanks for the help, trying to get oriented on convenience vs security sometimes still...