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You aren't going to like this:
Because if you got yourself pwned by a malicious link in discord, your account highjacked, etc., then having discord in a vm, container, chroot, jail, or whatever won't help you on the server-side api abuse that got you pwned. In this case, you yourself should have been more vigilant.
From your article, and with respect, I think its nice you're thinking more about security, but you're mixing up quite a few concepts, and you should probably make smaller moves toward security that you actually understand, instead of going all-in on qubes with only a vague concept of the difference between sandboxing and paravirtualization.
Slightly harsh but that is the truth of it. Improving the walls and doors will help, but if the guard on the door can be convinced to admit an uninvited guest then the physical security will have much harder time protecting your data. The weakest part of any security system is the people.
Yep.
I was hoping not to sound too harsh, I'll have to work on that.
As long as it's factual harsh is even welcome.
Well, maybe not any, but most ;D
Server-side API? I was talking about avoiding to get one's entire OS hijacked. The qube with the browser might get compromised, but dom0 would stay safely offline, that's my ideal, not the utopic notion of never possibly getting attacked and hacked.
As long as you don't explain what concepts am I mixing up, I don't see the respect, but as a random person on the Internet, feel free to troll, I'll move on.