"Now You're Thinking with Qubes"

[kahdssig]

@KarlinQubes

I find this to be a very fast process, personally. I love Keepassxc in vault. Signing up for a new account with guerilla mail each time to post seems a lot less convenient.

And do you manually pause all qubes connected via via to sys-net, and then manually unpause them again after you’ve closed [Vault]?

@deeplow

Pause All VMs for Secure Operation

(Haven’t seen this implemented yet – as far as I know)
We know that harware-based attacks like spectre or meltdown can read memory portions in other VMs.

But imagine for example that while opening you password manager on your vault qube it pauses all other VMs, then you enter the passphrase (it’s now in memory), copies the password to the qubes-clipboard, removes your master passphrase from memory and then resumes everything else. (stole this idea from here and

Manually pausing all qubes just to “safely” copy/past a forum-account-password sounds way more inconvenient than simply making a new account :-p
Hehehe, of course out treat model is not as severe that we have to worry about that of course… but yeah… security or convenience… that’s what my windows-friends tell me too whenever I talk about Linux… they prefer the convenience of windows, lol, and then I didn’t even mention qubes :-p

@KarlinQubes

And then you have the issue of returning to threads etc.

Oh, this for sure! I’m 100% with you on this one