Well, I'm worried about hardware backdoors even now too. Although there is always the 'know your hardware' tag advertised with RISC-V, that's not going to cha

Well, I'm worried about hardware backdoors even now too. Although there is always the 'know your hardware' tag advertised with RISC-V, that's not going to change until we have complete control(or trust) of the fabs. It's a bit like people being worried about malware/adware/spyware on their phones/personal computers. Are you sure that right now, you have no spyware? How can you be sure if you're not compiled the code your self? If you did compile the code and read all the lines of the code you compiled -- great achievement!. So now, if your phone has been connected to the internet, how do you know there wasn't a vuln that wasn't exploited, and a root kit installed with the last app you thought was great and had to have it? Or even just the last JS block wasn't malicious? Sorry for the rant. I just wanted to convey complete security is an illusion we know and make ourselves believe is the real thing. I'm a lot more interested in the cost economics with RISC-V, and I don't really have to worry security right now in the MCU, embedded space, where it is manageable (atleast right now).