Re:Air Gaps
by deftnerd on Friday October 11, 2013 @10:38AM
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I'm a big fan of Qubes-OS. It's an interesting OS distro that's based on the Xen hyprevisor and allows you to maintain different VM zones that integrate with the desktop.
You could have a Banking VM that only runs a certain browser and the firewall only lets traffic to-and-from your banks site. You Work VM could be set to only allow traffic through a VPN connection to your work. Your BitCoin VM could be set to not have any network traffic at all. You could even have a Tor VM with a browser.
Re:Air Gaps
by hershel on Friday October 11, 2013 @10:51AM
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But qubes did issue a security advisory , talking about a security bug in VT-d/VT-x hardware that only intel can fix. For someone like schneier who want to avoid the NSA , maybe qubes is not enough.
You could have a Banking VM that only runs a certain browser and the firewall only lets traffic to-and-from your banks site. You Work VM could be set to only allow traffic through a VPN connection to your work. Your BitCoin VM could be set to not have any network traffic at all. You could even have a Tor VM with a browser.
http://qubes-os.org/trac