On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 6:26:16 PM UTC-4, yreb-qusw wrote: > On 07/19/2017 12:17 PM, cooloutac wrote: > > > > > > secure boot isn't supported on qubes unfortunately. Hacking teams insyde > > bios exploit could be used remotely according to experts, so secure boot > > would actually defend against something like that remotely as well. I hope > > people get over the anti microsoft and redhat notions about it. Richard > > Stallman gives it the ok in its current state, so why spite. > > > > And ya AEM seems complicated to setup so unless you travel alot and are > > worried about evil maids or someone breaking into your computer, a usbvm > > is probably more practical. > > > > So, you do use both an Admin and User pw , but not secure boot for > your Qubes machine? > > no evil maids here, but I guess there is/was talk of remote exploits > and or USB drives of possible uncertain cleanliness, that might > also be protected by AEM ? > > > in my case, last time the USBVM thing , or my attempted implementation, > rather, nearly cause a meltdown, but since I've the PS2 adapter, > personaly, I'm also avoiding the USBVM ..... I suppose overall, I'm > still safer than running Windows 10 :) aren't I ... > or other Ubuntu distros....
aem doesn't protect anything, its just an alert if something was compromised. Secure boot on the other hand will actually prevent an exploit. From reading other users experience aem also seems buggy so I don't know how reliable it is. People on here have gotten false positives. -- 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 post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e9fa3a95-b405-4848-8ab1-c13a909fe90f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
