>We base so much of human progress on these little wafers of silicon, it shouldn't be extreme to want to know what they do. Well said. I'll add that security i

>We base so much of human progress on these little wafers of silicon, it shouldn't be extreme to want to know what they do. Well said. I'll add that security is a threshold, and that computer systems are extremely complex. Every bit of openness -and the verifiability such openness affords- brings us closer to that ideal secure system.