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Secure Desktops with Qubes: Extra Protection

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Kyle Rankin
Dec 19, 2016

One of the concerns I’ve always had with my Linux desktop was with the fact that I had a copy of my GPG key on the desktop so I could use it for my email. Of course, my key was password-protected, but I still worried that if my computer ever were compromised, an attacker still could grab it and try to brute-force it.

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Kyle Rankin

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