[Crypto-chi] Micah Lee interviews Snowden

[Freddy Martinez]

Graecurity responded to Snowden here :)
https://grsecurity.net/~spender/recommend_response.txt

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 13:43 Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> ===========================
> 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.
> ===========================
>
> cheers,
> drew
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