ljul8...@gmail.com: > I was told that buying an used laptop represents an extra risk since the > previous owner could have used the laptop with Qubes and got dom0 infected.
There's some terminology mixed up here. Qubes' dom0 is part of the operating system, not the hardware. A Qubes dom0 infection, although unlikely, is no different than a Windows or Linux infection, and can be cleaned by formatting the drive. What you are concerned about is a firmware infection, which is less likely to happen compared to other OS's if someone was already running Qubes. Again, out of the hundreds of thousands malwares out there, I've only heard of a couple that install themselves at the firmware level so the chances of you finding a used laptop with one are minimal. You need to weigh this against the possibility that new laptops could also be infected. Some say all new x86 laptops are backdoored, for example. > After a little bit of research, I was told that installing coreboot would > eliminate/delete any malware that, in a hypothetical case, took control of > dom0 when the previous owner used the laptop for Qubes but I’m not too sure > if this is true, do you guys thinks it’s true? > Yes, I believe flashing Coreboot would eliminate known system firmware malwares. See 799's reply, he beat me to it! You might also check out https://insurgo.ca/ if you're not comfortable flashing yourself. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/17b38f88-625b-2c33-67ae-afc2cd40b797%40danwin1210.me.
