[gigama]

Would be happy to use Qubes if I could also get a certified laptop to run it on. Even after months their hardware requirements page still says "Unfortunately, there are currently no certified laptops for Qubes R3.x or R4.x. This page will be updated once certified laptops are available."

Anyone have any insider ETA or recommendations? Prefer a practical/reliable laptop over some expensive racehorse.

What laptop does Snowden use?

[gigama]

Snowden: "I’ll just namecheck Qubes here, just because it’s interesting. I’m really excited about Qubes because the idea of VM-separating machines, requiring expensive, costly sandbox escapes to get persistence on a machine, is a big step up in terms of burdening the attacker with greater resource and sophistication requirements for maintaining a compromise. I’d love to see them continue this project. I’d love to see them make it more accessible and much more secure. [You can read more about how to use Qubes here and here.]

Something that we haven’t seen that we need to see is a greater hardening of the overall kernels of every operating system through things like grsecurity [a set of patches to improve Linux security], but unfortunately there’s a big usability gap between the capabilities that are out there, that are possible, and what is attainable for the average user."

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/edward-snowden-explains-...

[ttul]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20

[pjf]

Wow, does it run NetBSD? :)