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the thing i never understood about Tails practically,

you then need a yubikey right? gotta keep your priv key somewhere...

I used Qubes as my daily for a while but i got tired of hacking around withirt.

so now I have several devices instead lol

it was easier to just have a few old laptops/multi boot setups.

forensic analysis isn't in my threat model

but curious
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Ava 1y ago

Big fan of Yubikeys. Tails would need persistent storage to use one, but you can airgap keys with Veracrypt + hidden volume.

Here's a fun tutorial for generating and airgapping PGP private keys using GnuPG, Tails and YubiKey :)

https://github.com/sunknudsen/privacy-guides/blob/master/how-to-generate-and-air-gap-pgp-private-keys-using-gnupg-tails-and-yubikey/README.md

Old-school with multiple devices does the job too. How long has it been since you used Qubes? There's been a lot of upgrades recently that have improved the UI/UX just over the past year.

Honestly can't imaging daily-driving anything else at this point unless Joanna builds something cooler, but IMO it's going to be hard for her to top Qubes.

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Hanshan 1y ago

this was my setup on my previous daily driver.

do you have any critiques?

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starp 1y ago

Have you heard of any progress on her "State considered harmful" laptop design?