the most secure OS in the world.....I hate it

This is the most secure operating system in the world and I hate it. This is Cube's oss. It says it's a reasonably secure oss, which is kind of funny. It's so paranoid it won't even call itself the most secure. That's how secure it is. It assumes that nothing is secure unless you unplug the internet. Never write anything down, never say anything, never think anything. And finally you have privacy. But seriously cube's, OSS is really secure and it works with the assumption that you're going to ge

t hacked and that all software inherently contains bugs or flaws that will be exploited. They're not wrong. And here's how they deal with that. Cold, hard truth confine control and contain the damage. Now I set this up and I'm not going to lie. It's a pain and I want you to share in my pain. I'm going to walk you through how to set this up inside a VM or on a physical computer and we can suffer together. But seriously, it's actually really fun to set up and the way it works is fascinating. It's

basically a type one hypervisor oss. So get your coffee ready. Let's dive into how cube's OSS works and let's also try to make it work. Now, I would not be able to do any of this stuff if it weren't for our sponsor it Pro by a CI learning. They help me learn the Linux skills. I need to do stuff like this. We'll talk more about them here in a moment. Now, cubes, oss, it's nuts. Everything is run out of these securely isolated compartments. They're kind of like little pods or cubes. Now get used t

o that word. I'm going to be saying it a lot. In fact, video editor, throw up a counter. Let's play your favorite drinking game. And of course I'm talking about coffee every time I say cubes. Take a sip. You're about to be so awake and alert and beneficial to society. It's going to be awesome. Now, whenever you want to do anything on your cube's computer, you'll first decide who you want to be, which you are you right? Now check this out. Let's say you want to be work you. So I'll choose my work

queue and I'll launch Firefox. And right now something amazing is happening, an isolated environment. A little isolated cube is being spun up and this is essentially a virtual machine. Notice it is taking a while because it's literally doing that. There it is. So I have my web browser. I might launch my file manager also in my work cube. And this cube is isolated from everything else on your computer. Nothing can touch it. Whatever you do for work stays in that work cube. At the same time, you

can decide to be another you. Maybe the weird you. So you'll launch your weird cube and your weird Firefox. And in this moment another virtual machine, an isolated cube is being spun up. I even get a little status up here. Cube weird has started. And I also might want to launch my Honix cube, which contains my tour browser and it will securely connect me to tour. Now it might seem like these apps are running side by side, but they're not. Each of them are in their own secure isolated compartment

. A cube, a virtual machine essentially, and they're protected. So the dark web view doesn't mess up the weird view and neither of them touch the work you. You're essentially running apps on different computers all in one place. It's magic. And this magic is virtualization. It always is. Oh, and notice real quick, each one of these is color coded. So you see that the work is both in blue, who makes is yellow, weird is red. So you know which cube you're interacting with. Easy to spot. Now remembe

r when I said that cube's OSS essentially is a type one hypervisor. oss, I was serious cube's uses zen based virtualization, which is based on the Zen Project Hypervisor and open source type one hypervisor. And if all these words kind of scare you, like virtual machines, hypervisor, what is that? I've got a video right here and I'll show you all about it. It's magic. You don't want to miss it if you don't understand what this is. Now, no matter where you're at with Linux new or expert IT Pro by

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mputer and in a vm. If you want to jump straight to that, check the timestamps. But first let's talk more about cubes. Now, the cubes we've launched so far here on my system, these are called app cubes and there are different types of cubes. That's why I'm telling you this right now. The app cubes are for applications, things you might launch and use. Now, every app cube is based on what's called a template cube, which consists of a based OSS and a bunch of apps you might want to commonly have a

cross various app cubes. So for example, if I look here, I'm going to jump into what's called my cube manager, cube tools cube Manager. So here you can see we have a list of our cubes, but also the templates. Like right here we have our onic templates and we can tell that because right here in the template column it's labeled as a template vm. Over here we have our Fedora template, and here we have our Debian 11 template. Notice each one of these is a different oss and all of our apps will use v

arious templates. See, most of our stuff is actually using Fedora, but I could change that right here, change my personal to use the Debian 11 and changed. And if we were to jump into any of these templates, let's say Debian 11 and go to settings, we could change a lot of stuff about these from firewall rules to the devices that allowed to use. And of course the applications right now it's using files, Firefox and Terminal. We can give it Thunderbird. Let's give it Thunderbird. There you go, fly

. Okay. And now every cube that uses that template will now have Thunderbird that what's cool about templates is that we can maintain and update our core applications in one place, the template and then every other cube will automatically have an updated version of let's say fire finds. But hold up. Let's say something bad happens. Maybe our weird cube gets hacked, it gets a virus, something's going on. What do we do? We don't do anything. It's isolated to that one cube. So it won't touch our ho

nix cube or our work cube and it won't even touch the template. The cubes themselves, the app cubes cannot interfere, change, modify at all the original template. So we're safe. Shoot, I think it's infected. Just shut it down. No worries. Now here are the coolest cubes. I think there are. I told you there's so many cubes. We have a thing called service cubes. Literally everything on this OSS is isolated, controlled, and that includes things like USB devices that would be its own cube network. A

network connection will be given via a system cube or a service cube. And you can actually see them right now in our cube manager, we still have up, we've got cis USB cis net SIS firewall. And if I look at my personal cube and I edit those settings, if I go to network here, I can choose which network cube it'll use. Right now, by default it's using the CIS firewall, which as it might sound like is a firewall cube meant to prevent things from coming in where you go straight csnet with limited fir

ewall rules or connected to the tour network, CIS hun. So it's just crazy that the control of USB devices and the control of networking devices is also isolated. It's like a compartment and we just kind of like Legos, connect them to whatever service we need or disconnect. Two more cubes you want to know about. One we're not really going to see very much. It's called the management cube. It does a lot of management, a lot of background stuff. But the most important cube, our last one we're going

to talk about is DOM zero. He is our admin cube. The most precious cube. It's the master, it's the root user kind of. It manages all the other cubes and pretty much the entire system, it's the most trusted. And if it were ever compromised, pack your bags, you're going home, you're done. Set your computer on fire, walk away. That's why cubes, OSS treats DOM zero. The admin cube, like Smeal treats the ring of power. It's just precious. Nothing can touch. Precious dom Zero has no internet connecti

on and it should only be worried about running the desktop environment and the Windows manager, that's it. You shouldn't use it for anything. Now we could launch a terminal and DOM zero. So if I went to my app launcher here and I launched just the terminal, I could tell at the top of the terminal it says Dom zero. That's where I'm at pinging anything, I got nothing. It's isolated. And also at the top here, top right in our tray, we can see all our running cubes and we can do things like run a qu

ick terminal, shut 'em down, restart. We can see Dom running at the top and seeing how much resources each cube is using. I know you want to try it. This looks cool, right? It looks fun even if you don't want to use it as your main oss and you're not as paranoid as all the big people we know who use it like Edward Snowden and others. It's just fun to play with. So let's do that right now. Now whether you're installing cube's, OSS on a physical computer, bare metal or a virtual machine and they h

ave the same system requirements and it's a lot, don't want to stress you out or let it, I don't know. For CPU, they'll definitely want a 64 bit CPU fairly modern and it needs something called Intel VT dash X enabled, which is their virtualization technology and that's with EPT. It's not important what all these stand for. Just know you need to have this enabled and available for a MD. It's called A MDV with RVI. And it'll also need something called I-O-M-M-U, which is normally just baked into t

he virtualization setting. So if you enable those two options for whatever processor you have, this will normally just kind of be there if you have issues and it's probably not there. And we are running out of room, so I'm going to bring it right over here for memory. This is where it gets kind of painful. Minimum six gigs of RAM recommended 16. Now when you're installing on a physical computer or bare metal, most laptops or computers have eight to 16 gigs of ram. Not a problem. Most of the time

you definitely want 16 though, trust me. But as a virtual machine, your computer needs 16 gigs of RAM extra. Now I'm running 64 here. I can do that. Just keep that in mind. If you want to run it in a VM like I'm about to show you, you'll need a lot of extra RAM as far as storage, this is our last requirement. Minimum is 32 gigs recommended as 128. Now I will say this, when setting up the virtual machine, I had to do 1 28. It did not work anything else. So keep that in mind. You'll need a ton of

RAM and 128 gigs of extra storage to run this in a virtual machine on your computer right now. Now I got to say this officially cubes does not support running inside a virtual machine. They're like don't do it. They really only support installing it on bare metal and they have a few hardware devices that they actually officially approve. Things I've never heard of, but I installed it on this actually, lemme go get it. I installed it on this ROG laptop and so I didn't have to overwrite the exist

ing operating system. I installed it on two a portable SSD, which you can do. So if I didn't scare you away, let's install cubes right now. The first thing we'll do is download a cube's iso. I'll have a link for that below and we'll download the stable release here. So the first one's like a testing release. I don't want to help him test anything right now. So I'm going to download the official 4 1 2 release this guy right here and downloading. Now if you're going to install this in a virtual ma

chine, that's all you got to do. If you're going to install this on physical hardware like this laptop here, you're going to want to write that to A USB stick, which I was doing this, I had one in my hand, I'll be right back. So we'll grab our USB drive here, plug it in, and to write this to the USB stick, we're going to use a tool called rufuss. I love that. It's called rufuss. It's just fun. It's going to download the portable version because I don't like installing things. And here in rufuss

we're going to do one very important thing. So first we're going to of course select our ISO or select our disk first, make sure you are not overriding anything. I got my 16 gig USB, I'll select my ISO cubes 4 1 2. I'm going to leave everything as default, but the important thing comes here. I'll click start and say write and DD image mode. It will not work any other way. So just click on okay and it's like, okay, we're going to erase everything. I'm like, cool, we're good. I know, I know. And l

et it do its thing. Perfect time for a coffee break network. Check coffee. Now while that's writing, let's spend some time talking about the virtual machine people. Hi, let's get this set up. Now I tested out virtual box didn't work. I don't think it fully supports io, MMU, whatever the case, it was a pain, but what did work and it's still free is VMware workstation player. It's free to download AVA link below and it's actually kind of easy to get set up. I wish I would've started with this from

the beginning, but I did all the hard stuff so you don't have to. So download VMware workstation player, get that installed and just know this is a type two hypervisor. So what's kind of funny here is we're going to be installing cubes oss, which is essentially a type one hypervisor onto a type two hypervisor, which is weird. And what we're going to be doing is something called nested virtualization where we're going to be first of all virtualizing R OSS by creating cubes and then cubes will be

virtualizing its OSS by creating the individual cubes, nested virtualization. It's kind of magic that we're doing this. I love it. Again, cubes is like don't do that with their ISO downloaded in VMware workstation installed. Let's try it out. Don't worry. Physical computer people. We're going to touch on your stuff here in a second. Here in VMware workstation 17 player, I'm going to click on playa. Sorry, I did not mean to do that. Just came out. Click on file and new virtual machine. Well then

select installer, disc image file or iso. We're going to use that. We'll go find it real quick. I'll browse to my cube's. 4 1 2 download, click on next. You want to make sure that you have Linux selected and fedora 64 bit fedora is the base OSS that cubes runs off of. It's where Dom zero runs. We'll click on next, we'll name it cubes, cubes, cubes, just something dumb. Click on next and then here is where you're going to hit a hiccup. If you don't do this, 128 gigs for the hard drive, just do i

t. It works for Nike, it works for us. Sorry, that was a lame joke. The dad jokes, I'm telling you they flow. Well click on next. And then one more thing. We're going to customize the hardware. Remember that the memory requirements are pretty steep right now. It's like defaulting to two gigs. That's not going to cut it. Minimum it wants six. No, I'm going to do 16. It's hungry, it wants 16. I'm going to feed it what it wants. You can try six. I can't vouch for now. I'm going to mo you on over to

processors here on the left just below memory. I'm going to increase my processors to like four so I'll have a good time. And then very important, I'm going to enable Intel VTX and also io, MMU. Now that is pretty much all I have to change. I'll click on close, click on finish. I think it may even start it automatically for us. That doesn't, we'll just do it ourselves. Yeah, let's go ahead and play. So play virtual machine or just hit the play icon right here with this virtual machine selected,

ready, set, go. And it is starting now. You're going to see this window. It'll invite you to test the media and install or just install. I'm just going to jump to install. Install cubes. Hit enter with that option selected. Keeping in mind on virtual machine or virtual, can't say this today, VMware workstation 17 player. Hit CTR ALT on your keyboard to get your mouse back to get it out of that zone. Alright, so that's going to bake for a second and I'm forewarning you the cubes. OSS install doe

s take a long time. 30 to 45 minutes is what I found. Maybe longer because I just didn't keep track of time. I was just doing other stuff. So get you a fresh cup of coffee, you're on your way. But look, things are happening. That's pretty exciting. Now, virtual people, before we move on to our next step, let's jump to physical and get you guys set up. You can see here my Rufuss has finished writing my disc. I'm going to close that up, grab my USB drive and plug it into my computer. And of course

if you want to install cubes on an external SSD or hard drive, make sure you have that ready and plugged in. This is disgusting. Now this will vary based on what kind of laptop or hardware you have, but boot into your machine and press F 10, F 12, delete to get into your bio settings. I'm always just like, I think ROG does delete. I'm not sure. No it doesn't. What does it do? I'll have to Google it now. See, it's all different. I hate it. Okay, ROG, you have to hold down F two while rebooting.

Okay, whatever. ROG ha, there we go. Now here I'm going to jump into advanced mode By hitting F seven, you'll probably want to get into advanced mode on your bios and there's two things you'll want to change in your bios to make sure things work correctly. Now, here on this laptop, if I scroll over to advanced, there's an option called SVM mode, which I can see right here says Enable disable CPU virtualization. I want that enabled. Mine's already enabled. Enable yours, it might be Intel V or A M

DV. It's all kind of a little bit different, but around those same terms, search for that. The other setting that's pretty annoying. We have to change this scrolling over to security or something like security. And when you see Secure boot jump in there, we'll want to against your best judgment, disable secure boot. Without this disabled, I was not able to boot into my external SSD here. Once cubes is installed, now we'll say this, if you decide to not use Cubes anymore and you want to go back t

o your OSS that's installed in your main desktop, you'll want to re-enable Secure Boot. Otherwise you can't boot back into your stuff. Keep that in mind. It scared me. I almost lost it. So make sure you have Secure Boot Disabled and then we'll hit save and exit. This should reboot your system and then you'll want to hit whatever key it is for your OS to boot into the boot options for ROG. I think it's escape. Yeah it is. And then I'll choose my USB stick, the one I just installed into my laptop,

the one that has cubes on it here I want to select, let me zoom in on that so you can see it. Install cubes oss. Now for the rest of the install, whether you're doing virtual machine or physical, it's going to be pretty much the same. Now also keep in mind, if you're installing cubes inside a virtual machine, your physical machine that you have this type two hypervisor running will also need virtualization enabled in your bios. So the same thing we did here on the physical computer installation

. Make sure you have those things enabled for your main computer. So I'm going to continue here on virtual machines land. Here we have basic OSS options. Choose your language. We're then prompted to select, and it's not obvious, our disc partitioning information. So we'll click on that. We already have the disc we created for this VM selected. If you're doing this on a physical computer, you might have more than one option For me, I want to choose my Samsung SSD and not the internal hard drive o

n my computer. And then you'll have the option to encrypt your data. I'm just going to uncheck that. I don't want to do that right now. Click on done here at the top left, scroll down just a bit to set a new user account and then click on begin installation. Okay, we got it complete. And you might be like, okay, I'm about to play with this. Not quite yet, you'll see what I mean. So now we can just click on reboot system and it will do very much that reboot the system and I'm sorry it's so small,

I just can't resize it. Now we're almost done here. Again, it's not crazy obvious, but it wants us to click on this cubes OSS option right here in the middle. Here, we can choose what templates we want to have installed. Fedora Debbie and 11 who Nicks by default. I'll install all three. Actually, you know what? For sake of time I'll take out Debian. You've got a few more options and if you want to tinker, you can, but for now I'm just going to leave that B, click on done. And then if you're on

player, you're like, okay, how do I start this? What's going on? I don't see, I can't scroll down. The finish button is just at the bottom right, just out of you. You can't see it. It's really annoying. So if you have the selected HIT tab twice, hit enter. I think we should hit the finish button. Yes. Okay, so just with that option selected hitting tab, tab twice, hit enter, it'll finish. It's going to install these options, which again will take way too long. So I'll see you in a second. I have

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ow after an eternity. My cubes OSS is ready. I'm going to get logged in. And here we are now again illustrating how secure cube's OSS is. We're having to allow USB interaction with the DON zero cube, which again is the root, the manager, the boss. Now, because I install the Hun Xix, I just feel weird when I say that. It's prompted me to say, Hey, do you want to connect to all the time for your entire system? This system is being, what does it say censored. You can do that, but I prefer just to d

o it myself or run my specific tour cube, click on next, blah, blah, blah. Yes. Next it'll do its thing. Connecting to the tour network, setting up relays. You know the drill. If you watch my other videos about running a tour relay or how to access the dark web securely. Now this is really tiny. I want to change how this looks better. Still small but bigger, if that makes sense. And now we're running cubes. You can add as many cubes as you want. If you want a banking cube to keep all your bankin

g stuff separated, a research cube with all the apps you might need for that, you can do that. It's really just up to you. They also have, and check this out, disposable cubes, which when you launch anything in these cubes but are files you create things you browse to. When you stop that cube, everything disappears. It's done. Honestly, it was kind of a pain to set up and it's kind of not the fastest. I mean it is running virtual machines, several if you're trying to be very secure. So I get tha

t, but I feel like it could be better. And also there's kind of better options, like simply running your own virtual machines might be a better option. I can create a virtual machine for specific things I want to do. So I have a TU machine for maybe banking. I can do these things myself and that might end up being easier and possibly more secure. If you want to learn more about how to update things and do more cool stuff with cubes, they got a ton of documentation. There's a pretty strong commun

ity. I'm not going to cover that here because I'm going to wipe my hands at this. It's cool, it's powerful. It is the most secure, but I don't care. I'm just going to still use Windows and Linux and Mac, but in a different way. I'll catch you guys next time. Wow.