ORWL: The Secure, Portable, Open-Source PC

[Logethica]

Need a tamper-proof, encrypted PC? The portable, open-source ORWL could be what you're looking for..

[Image: Design Shift]​

ORWL, whose name is inspired by George Orwell, is billed by its maker Design Shift as the first "physically secure computer" due to the lengths it's taken to lock down data stored on the device.

Hardware-wise, the device sports an Intel Skylake Core m3 processor, with 8GB RAM, and either 120 or 480GB SSD. It has two USB 3.0 Type C ports, one micro HDMI port, and supports 4K output.

The system can run Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux systems, Windows 10, or the security-focused Qubes OS.

Key to the device's physical security features is a secure microcontroller (MCU), which is used to store and generate the drive's cryptographic key. According to Design Shift, the MCU is integrated into the motherboard and verifies the integrity of firmware prior to boot.

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[hjlbx]

It will be a dud...

 

[Logethica]

ORWL Becomes Even More Secure With Qubes OS Support:
SOURCE: tomshardware.com (ARTICLE DATE: 31 Aug 2016)

The ORWL team has strived so far to make its computer as physically secure as possible. However, most of the people interested in buying such a device likely want the most secure operating system running on it, as well. That’s why the team will soon support Qubes OS.

Qubes OS is an operating system, or rather a “platform” for operating systems, that allows the user to separate tasks in different virtual machines (where each can run its own OS). In this way, it minimizes the risk that one PDF or document file, or a certain browsing session, can hijack the whole system.

Users can use either more permanent VMs, which they can separate into “work,” “personal,” “banking,” and so on, but they can also instantly create “disposable VMs” for tasks such opening an email attachment. The disposable VMs will be wiped as soon as they are closed.

Qubes OS also puts the networking software stack and USBs in virtual machines, and the team behind it generally tries to isolate as many risky software components as possible into their own virtual machines. This is a rather unique but also highly effective way to deal with security issues, and it’s why the ORWL team is now going to support Qubes OS for its hardware. The two together should make the whole solution more appealing to security-minded people.

The ORWL team is currently doing a crowdfunding campaign and has already met 80% of its goal. The cheapest ORWL variant costs $699 and comes with a Skylake Core m3 processor and a 120GB self-encrypting SSD. The company plans to ship the ORWL computer on January 16, 2017, with free shipping costs in the U.S., and $80 shipping worldwide...

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[DardiM]

I voted "no".

I Love to be able to easily replace some hardware, when needed.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Also a valid point. I would only buy one of these if I had the money and had top-secret classified information to store.

if you had top-secret infos, means you works for a government agency , means they will give you hardware surely more secure than that.

btw, a so called privacy-oriented machine using Intel cpu , sure ! very private lol