SafeStack Advisor
A 5-minute questionnaire that recommends the right hardened OS and tools for your actual threat model — so people stop spending weeks choosing between Qubes, Tails, Whonix, and vanilla Linux and end up using nothing.
high-risk professionals (journalists, activists, lawyers) new to security
- Threat-model quiz: who might target you, what's at stake, how technical are you
- Personalized 'starter stack' with setup ORDER, not just a list
- 30-day onboarding plan with 10-min/day tasks and checkpoints
- Re-evaluation prompt when your situation changes (new job, new country, new adversary)
Qubes interest is up after the paper and HN discussion, but most curious people stall on choice and never ship a setup; decision support is the missing product.
Real but narrow audience: arxiv paper 'Qubes OS Security in the Public Record' exists and was posted to HN (25 points), secure-os.org publishes long threat-model-first comparison articles, and EFF SSD + Privacy Guides both lead with threat modeling — confirms the question is asked, but a 25-point HN thread indicates modest mainstream pull.Qubes OS Security in the Public Record - arXiv.org ↗Qubes vs Tails vs Whonix: Which OS for Your Threat Model? ↗
Crowded with free alternatives: secure-os.org already ships a 'Which Secure OS quiz' that maps threat model to Qubes/Tails/Whonix in under a minute, EFF SSD does the same via a guided plan wizard, and Privacy Guides publishes curated threat-model-first recommendations — the exact product is largely already given away for free.Qubes vs Tails vs Whonix: Which OS for Your Threat Model? ↗Surveillance Self-Defense | Electronic Frontier Foundation ↗
Weak: all three closest comparables (Privacy Guides, EFF SSD, secure-os.org) are free/donation-funded; target users are journalists, activists, and NGO lawyers with famously thin security budgets, and no clear willingness-to-pay signal surfaces in search results for paid threat-model advisory.Privacy Guides: Independent Privacy & Security Resources ↗Best Privacy Protection Tools for Journalists and Activists (2026) ↗
Durable category: threat-model-driven OS selection has been the recommended approach since the 2015 Secure Desktops mailing list (Qubes/Tails/Whonix all emerged from it) and Qubes security work continues into 2026, so the underlying need persists even as specific tools rotate.Qubes OS Security in the Public Record - arXiv.org ↗Qubes vs Tails vs Whonix: Which OS for Your Threat Model? ↗
Trivial to build as a 5-minute static questionnaire with a rule-based recommendation engine; main effort is content/curation expertise, not engineering, and existing open content (Privacy Guides, secure-os.org) can scaffold the decision tree quickly.Surveillance Self-Defense ↗