[Crypto-chi] Micah Lee interviews Snowden

[Drew Fustini]

Recently published interview of Ed Snowden by Micah Lee which is more
technical than most other Snowden interviews:

    Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy
    https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/edward-snowden-explains-how-to-reclaim-your-privacy/

I found this part very interesting:
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LEE: What sort of security tools are you currently excited about? What
are you finding interesting?

SNOWDEN: I’ll just namecheck Qubes here, just because it’s
interesting. I’m really excited about Qubes because the idea of
VM-separating machines, requiring expensive, costly sandbox escapes to
get persistence on a machine, is a big step up in terms of burdening
the attacker with greater resource and sophistication requirements for
maintaining a compromise. I’d love to see them continue this project.
I’d love to see them make it more accessible and much more secure.
[You can read more about how to use Qubes here and here.]

Something that we haven’t seen that we need to see is a greater
hardening of the overall kernels of every operating system through
things like grsecurity [aset of patches to improve Linux security],
but unfortunately there’s a big usability gap between the capabilities
that are out there, that are possible, and what is attainable for the
average user.
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cheers,
drew