On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 11:09:59 AM UTC-5, Catacombs wrote: > > My apple is from 2009. Which I upgraded until I got to Mac OS 10 Lion. > One of the Apple tech support suggested to defer OS 10 updates as the > features added were for Syncing between different devices like IPhone, > IPad, ICloud, other Apple computers. I would call them security holes. > Besides Apple uses Broadcom for internet connection. Not Foss. And TAILS > says brooadcom can not be spoofed. > > My thought being to use Linux distro as the host. Perhaps, pen testing. > A Linux Distro that has an extensive outgoing Firewall. Then put VMware on > top of that, for $250.00. > > But I am not anxious to do so if VMware is the total black box suggested > by poster. > > I recall several years ago, a huge security hole, created in open source, > coding left to a group of enthusiasts, in Java. A guy was begging not to > be banned for writing the security hole. Pointing out his Patch had been > approved by very knowledgeable developers and he clearly had no intent to > create a security hole. > > My point being open source and FOSS are not perfect. Plus. What no one > every talks about. The NSA is one of the largest employers of > Mathematicians in the world. I would guess the NSA is also one of the > biggest employers of really well trained Linux programmers. That is. They > don’t, as Hollywood might suggests, hire their tech guys from script > kiddies who are in jail or probation. They hire first rate minds who had > the work ethic to get a Masters from places like MIT. USC. First rate > Computer Science programs. These NSA tech guys are likely spending some > of their employers time in helping to fix Fedora, Debian, Perhaps Tails and > Qubes as well. > > I am pretty sure China. China with the big C who is reputed to have a lot > of their who used computers in some way the government did not approve. > Such as, Telling the Truth of events. Or just violating the big China > Firewall. Big China has a large group of Linux programmers, who might be > helping Linux Distros as well. Of course. In some small countries I > suspect their security services are not well trained computer specialists. > Perhaps individuals who left schooling before middle school. But their > interrogation is more blunt bruising instruments. Heated objects. Ropes. > Cold water. I might have gone to elementary school with some like that, > here in the US. > > Still China may have more qualified Linux programmers to pull apart Tor. > Tails. Qubes. Than their are qualified Linux people trying to make it work. > > > There is another group of security concerns we never write about on the > Qubes site. Our connection with the internet. Servers. ISP software. > Server software. Well actually we now hear of the 5G hazards. > > How much more Secure is what I do with QUBEs versus something like VMware. > Also assuming I am careful of how I use it. That I have a formula to use. > Reminding myself that “Encryption is more likely broken in Practice than > in Theory.” That is. If we use poor techniques. Then all the encryption > available will not help us. > > All that said. I will continue to use QUBEs. Because at least they try. > > But another question obvious to many experienced QUBEs users. Why Fedora > is emphasized over. Say CentOS. Which is supposed to be the same as Red > Hat, CentOS having a delay in implementation? Or a very limited hardened > Debian?
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