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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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