Qubes provides practical, usable security to vulnerable and
actively-targeted individuals, such as journalists, activists,
whistleblowers, and researchers. Qubes is designed with the understanding
that people make mistakes, and it allows you to protect yourself from your
own mistakes. It's a place where you can click on links, open attachments,
plug in devices, and install software free from worry. It's a place where
you have control over your software, not the other way around.
(See some examples of how
different types of users organize their qubes.)
Qubes is also powerful. Organizations like the Freedom
of the Press Foundation, Mullvad,
and Let's
Encrypt rely on Qubes as they build and maintain critical privacy and
security internet technologies that are in turn relied upon by countless
users around the world every day. Renowned security experts like Edward Snowden, Daniel J. Bernstein,
Micah Lee, Christopher Soghoian, Isis Agora Lovecruft, Peter Todd, Bill
Budington, and Kenn White use and recommend Qubes.
Qubes is one of the few operating systems that places the security of
its users above all else. It is, and always will be, free and open-source
software, because the fundamental operating system that constitutes the
core infrastructure of our digital lives must be free and
open-source in order to be trustworthy.
