Wrong moderation about the "Mythos and Qubes OS leaks" topic

[corporateblush]

How this topic is off and locked? General discussion of finding leaks in Qubes with Mythos?
I need genuine explanation with reference to forum Guidelines.

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/mythos-and-qubes-os-leaks/40619

[parulin-mod]

You started the topic with a specific question: “Were the devs notified about leaks in Qubes/Xen?”. That’s not off-topic.

But none of the posts below this question provide an answer: the discussion is randomly about Mythos, LLMs, OpenBSD, formal proofs, etc. And none of those topics are discussed in relation to Qubes OS.

That said, it would have been better to ask everyone to stay on-topic if we want to keep this thread open instead of closing it without a warning. So I will reopen the topic, with an appropriate message. Thank you for your feedback.

[yanlong]

it seems like i cannot open that discussion. why?

[corny]

@yanlong

why?

As a new user, you dont have access to All Around Qubes area

[parulin-mod]

To provide a bit of context: the original post was asking if leaks had been found by Mythos in Qubes. There was no answer but the discussion moved from something specific to Qubes OS to something broader.

We have an All around Qubes category for that. But:

This category is exclusively available to those who have participated significantly on the forum already.

That’s why you can’t see it. Of course, if there were any facts about the original question, it would once again be available to everyone.

See also:

All around Qubes - why closed?

Mod’s perspective: we don’t want to incetivise these discussions because they are not about Qubes and are generally hard to moderate (too broad of a context). Opening it up to the public as read-write would make this forum not be about Qubes. Making it read-only for most would make this category more discoverable, and therefore, lead to a lot of confusion about how to reply to those comments. When the mailinglist (read-only) mirror was unmutted (and showed in the home page) we got quite a few a…

[yanlong]

so TL;DR, we don’t know if there was a vulnerability in Qubes found by mythos right? that’s all i wanted to know as that’s what’s relevant to using Qubes.

[parulin-mod]

Yep

[unman]

Think about it - if mythos had found a vulnerability in Xen or Qubes,
and had exercised responsible disclosure, then the developers would first
have to confirm the issue, then develop and test a response, and
then* report to the community.

[Qman]

can the QubesOS team reach out to them? They may not have QubesOS on their radar, who knows if someone with access to it starts using it against the project?

[parulin-mod]

We are not going to discuss this in this topic (the question here is about moderation).