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this is our golden opportunity to switch to something less privacy evading and bug-ridden. (and it will incidentally also prove that the market really doesn't

• krylon 9y ago
  The problem is that there are not many alternatives. AMD claims their current CPUs are not affected, but they still have the PSP, AMD's equivalent to Intel's ME. I suppose it has not been probed as thoroughly as ME because of Intel's bigger market share. ARM CPUs are - according to Intel - also vulnerable, which disqualifies almost all other competitors. I had hoped that the Longsoon chips would amount to something; I vaguely remember Richard Stallman used a notebook with Longsoon processor, but none of the vendors I checked at the time had even heard of it. And if you are paranoid enough, a Longsoon-based system might just replace the NSA with their chinese equivalent. The only viable alternative from a technology point of view that I am aware of is the Talos Raptor workstation. Unfortunately, it is rather expensive. Okay, for a high-end workstation, the price is not unusual. But compared to the price of a regular office PC, it is very expensive.
  • reirob 9y ago
    I'm also looking at Raptor Hardware and I would love to hear the experience from somebody that uses it. As well, I am not sure that POWER9 is immune to these attacks. And then, well, you still cannot buy their products, as far as I understand it from their page [1]. Does anybody know more about the Raptor systems? [1]: https://raptorcs.com/ https://raptorcs.com/