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>>rbanff+(OP)
Previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246990

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170

This story won't see much traction on HN. The cult of Mac is too strong, and HN users generally aren't interested in secure operating systems.

>>sbierw+21
Yes, Apple is the reason most people don't care about an unbelievably inconvenient desktop sandbox.

>>m0nast+P1
Haha. :)

To be fair, Apple's focus on usability and convenience could be linked to Qubes, in that they represent very different points on the "How much users should be thinking about security" spectrum.

>>djcape+gf
Qubes to me seems like what I imagine would happen if DARPA threw a roomful of security nerds together in the 90's and told them to come up with something to let intelligence analysts process mixed-class data. The software equivalent of a one-way-transfer device.

It makes me long for the day that current pc's end up relegated to the attic of computing.

>>m0nast+Jf
Oh no, not at all, Qubes is a much lighter weight alternative to what the roomful of security people DARPA did throw together in the 90s to try and design those systems.

They're throwing another roomful of people together to build something similar right now. If Joanna wants and maneuvers right, her lab could end up getting a lot of the contracts to do a lot of things the DoD wants done.

I'm not sure whether she's interested in that though, or whether she's pursued it already. They'd probably ask for a bunch of stuff that would involve headaches. Either that or she's already doing work on it. Dunno, to be honest.