Re: [qubes-users] Re: Quick question please, need help!

2019-07-03 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/07/2019 3.11 AM, Sphere wrote: > I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the verification process > being done by dnf on the signature of packages so the question > still lies on me: Is downloading packages from plaintext http > susceptible to

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Quick question please, need help!

2019-07-03 Thread Sphere
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the verification process being done by dnf on the signature of packages so the question still lies on me: Is downloading packages from plaintext http susceptible to MITM? Even if that is not the case, I believe we can't be for sure that there's no exploit

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Quick question please, need help!

2019-07-02 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/07/2019 10.15 PM, Sphere wrote: > [...] > > 5. Picking only update sources that you could trust. IDK about > debian but in fedora, by default, all updates are grabbed from > mirrors and alot of those only support http which is bloody > insecur

[qubes-users] Re: Quick question please, need help!

2019-07-02 Thread Sphere
@Jon deps: Proper hardening involves: 1. Proper use of firewall rules using qvm-firewall 2. Reducing the attack surface by only installing what is needed. Refer to usage of debian-minimal and fedora-minimal template in Qubes documentation. 3. Drop INPUT and OUTPUT in sys-net(only do this if you

[qubes-users] Re: Quick question please, need help!

2019-06-28 Thread Jon deps
On 6/27/19 10:01 AM, Sphere wrote: The general idea is correct If dom0 gets pwned then everything else can be pwned and stolen, including your data pwning dom0 properly and successfully however, is not trivial because dom0 has no direct access to network hardware to communicate in the first pla

[qubes-users] Re: Quick question please, need help!

2019-06-27 Thread Sphere
The general idea is correct If dom0 gets pwned then everything else can be pwned and stolen, including your data pwning dom0 properly and successfully however, is not trivial because dom0 has no direct access to network hardware to communicate in the first place and malicious actors would need m

[qubes-users] Re: Quick question please, need help!

2019-06-26 Thread Jon deps
On 6/21/19 10:37 PM, ljul8047-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: So I’m still learning about Qubes but I have a question please. I was told that if dom0 gets infected, everything in the laptop can be found and read. The ip is not a problem but I’m not sure about the MAC address? If