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Comment by michael-go | Hacker News Reader

I think that "The closest you can get to Qubes on Windows" is what https://www.hysolate.com/ are building

>Virtual Air Gap

lol. the whole point of an airgap is that you can very easily -at a glace- verify that the system is secure because there's no inputs/outputs to/from it (air gapped). trying to implement it using a hypervisor turns it into a buzzword.

Facts are lost in the world of marketing, all that matters is ctr and conversion. I wonder if we can do something about this?

Make people care more about reason and logic than emotion when making product purchasing decisions? I don't think we'll get very far with that goal.

It might no longer be as simple as at a glance in a world with ubiquitous wireless. You'd have to take special care to disable or disconnect all wireless chips in your system. And that might be hard for laptops and impossible in lower form factors.

Even without radios, there are lots of different ways to get data in and out of an airgapped system. Examples include everything from sound (especially ultrasonic beacons etc. as these are used for cellphone marketing today) to more esoteric stuff like flashing the LEDs in a specific pattern or even changing the cpu temperature to specific levels.

Or how about the AM radio transmitter that is built into all x86 hardware - https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio

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