Oh … didn’t think about this.
As for bootstrapping the trust. I was trusting Star Labs until
- They shipped extremely out of date UEFI boots older than they been in business
- A Qubes Forum poster informed me Star Labs has a MasterKey of which Star Labs NEVER mentioned let alone gave instructions for, they only ever gave instructions on the KeySlot passphrases AFTER I bugged them about
- They haven’t responded in 3 business days, to a new customer (me)
They had my trust and that trust has now quickly eroded and I now am starting to regret doing business with them but didn’t have the $ for a Libre or Purism laptop. It is a shame Poor people always have to sacrifice their privacy and even security … I wasn’t poor again until everything was stolen so this makes me extra bitter going through this entire ordeal having been excited about Star Labs only to be let down.
Yes, these are my next To Do’s after I finish with the 2 Qubes laptops I got from Star Labs.
I have 2 hardware firewalls to set up, as well as a kill switch hardware based VPN and I will learn how to utilize the Whonix to connect to TOR as well. All that is on my list To Do.
Thank you for explaining btw