(Workshop) Reclaiming privacy in the web with Whonix in KVM

Published on 2024/12/11

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Notes:

Disclaimer: this is just a quick outline I used for presenting and may contain errors

1. Introduction

2. Virtualization Platforms: Hypervisors and emulators

Hypervisors: hardware virtualization Virtualize only the Operating system on top of the original hardware

Emulators Virtualize the hardware architecture.

3. QEMU and KVM

Free and open source virtualization platform KVM -> manages CPU, memory and disk Qemu -> Emulates hardware devices: display, network interfaces, peripherals… QEMU/KVM

4. Privacy OSs

5. Whonix

6. Tor Network

Logo is an onion because the traffic is encrypted in layers. No intermediate node knows:

7. Hands-on: Installing Whonix on QEMU/KVM

Detailed on the readme and slides

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