Qubes OS is a security-focused free and open source operating system that tries to secure typical workflows through controlled interaction and minimize the attack surface for adversaries as much as possible through compartmentalization.
Current project status
Just an idea (Pre-alpha)
It exists! (Alpha/Beta)
It's basically done (Release)
People use it (Production)
Funding to date
2014
$160,000
12 months
2016
$410,000
12 months
Total Funding: $570,000
Addressed problems
- Repressive surveillance or monitoring of communication
- Restrictive Internet filtering by technical methods (IP blocking, DNS filtering, TCP RST, DPI, etc.)
- Technical attacks against government critics, journalists, and/or human rights organizations (Cyberattacks)
Objective(s)
- Software or hardware development
- Testing
- Research
- Deploying technology
- Technology development
Beneficiaries
- Technologists
- Sexual minorities
- General public
- Women
- Youth
- Ethnic minorities
- Activists
- Journalists
- Advocacy groups/NGOs
Region(s) archive
- Global
Technology attributes
- Anonymity
- Networking
- Other
- User interface/experience
We wrote about it
- OTF Monthly Report for June 2015
- OTF Monthly Report for July 2015
- Qubes OS "arguably the world's most secure operating system": Motherboard
- New Secure Desktops Mailing List
- February 2016 Monthly Report
- February 2017 Monthly Report
- March 2016 Monthly Report
- Quick update from a few OTF-supported projects
- April 2016 Monthly Report
- May 2016 Monthly Report
- June 2016 Monthly Report
- July 2016 Monthly Report
- August 2016 Monthly Report
- September 2016 Monthly Report
- A Reasonably Secure Future: Benetech