Opsec
(Re)Evaluating Qubes OS as a pentesting platform
Intro Laptop hardening is difficult at the best of times, and it’s made worse by the conflicting requirements we have for our workstations. With one laptop, we need to have work email and chat set up, we need to be able to spin up lab environments to test cool stuff we’re interested in, and we need to be able to run various tools on client engagements that may require us to lower the security of our laptop to run properly. The go-to solution to squaring these requirements is to use something like VMWare or docker containers to keep things separate, but after trying out Qubes for a while, I’ve found that it’s improved my workflow significantly. However, no linux setup is perfect out the box, and in this post I want to note the biggest changes I’ve made to make the OS more usable as a daily driver.
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