Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmentalization

Re:Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmental... by na85 on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:47PM (#8429865)

I take it you've not heard of the phrase "defensive depth".

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Re:Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmental... by geraldcombs on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:56PM (#8429893)

Shouldn't that be "defense in depth"?

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Re:Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmental... by anth1y on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @07:05PM (#8429917)

for those unaware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_%28computing%2...

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Re:Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmental... by mrottenkolber on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @07:31PM (#8430003)

The difference here is, you might feel safer but you are still in the exact same position as before, a bug in your hypervisor/Meta-OS screws you. I'd argue that is a harmful comfort.

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Re:Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmental... by Elhana on Thursday October 09, 2014 @02:35AM (#8431100)

The idea is that hypervisor is significantly smaller than the OS/kernel, so there will be less bugs. Not that they never happen, Xen had one recently.

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