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Comment #13032902
Yeah, we agree, actually. Tor probably won't even be the default. We are adding flexibility to network support right now. Soon you'll be able to have just cleartext SGOS, or be abl…
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Comment #13032778
When the domain was registered by me and idea originally hatched, the vision was to have the company focused on reverse engineering and the application to it of ideas from graph th…
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Comment #13026642
It was drawn by hand using a vector illustrations tool, based on a sketch that I had made. We think it is very cool and will produce more conceptual illustration in this style. The…
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Comment #13026478
No, Qubes hasn't written the TLS client handshake proxy to enforce the policy. Out of scope. That's what I meant, and it's just one example of the things above the level of "Qubes"…
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Comment #13026344
It's a desktop OS, and the hardened kernel is an important part of the project (i.e. no docker image).
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Comment #13026318
We use Xpra to do desktop isolation for now, by the way. It's similar to Qubes' display mechanism, but we didn't write it, and don't really like it as a security control. Just serv…
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Comment #13026291
It was me, at Subgraph, that setup the Secure Desktops mailing list and website. We hope to collaborate more with other projects in the future. There is already interest from other…
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Comment #13026240
Subgraph does lots of things Qubes doesn't, and this will only increase over time. For example: an experimental Subgraph OS feature[1] is to, by mandatory sandbox policy, prevent a…
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Comment #13025180
These are great questions. We have a Gnome shell plug-in to move files into sandboxes while an application is running. Certain applications also have shared directories (e.g. "Down…
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Comment #13025140
You can install/run the downloadable image in a VM. Lots of people do. We test with VMWare Fusion/kvm/Virtual Box.
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Comment #13025128
Yup. Subgraph is a nearly 7 year old open source software company. We wrote a web scanner (Vega) that's sadly neglected, though still used regularly by thousands of users. We also …
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Comment #13025068
The new ISO is coming very soon. We've just been busy with consulting we do to support the project and there were some issues with gpg2. Wayland is one huge reason why we aren't ev…
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Comment #13024906
Hi, I'm an SGOS dev. I don't know what you mean by "mostly a patched Linux", but here's what Subgraph OS is so far -- and it's a young project: we have a kernel patched with grsec/…