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> Not sure what the actual target customer base is The target customer is someone who doesn't want to be spied on by IME, PSP, or TrustZone, but totally trusts
by daxorid 8y ago
> Not sure what the actual target customer base is
The target customer is someone who doesn't want to be spied on by IME, PSP, or TrustZone, but totally trusts IBM not to collude with FVEY :)
- madez 8y agoIs it unreasonable to generally distrust all of the big companies from the USA when it comes to security-sensitive components like for example networking and CPU?
- microcolonel 8y agoWhy limit it to the USA? If anything the USA has the least misbehaven government among the nations where high performance chips are manufactured. I don't trust 'em wholesale, but I certainly don't trust the China any more, nor Russia, nor even Korea, Taiwan, or Japan (which I am partial to).
- daxorid 8y ago> Why limit it to the USA? Threat modeling always considers the force your adversary is capable of bringing to bear against you. If you are a US citizen, residing in the US, then the US is far more capable of capturing and throwing you into a 6'x6' steel box than the government of Russia or China. Russia and China may very well be worse actors than FVEY, but if they can't actually get at you, then it's best to worry about who can.
- 4ad 8y agoIf the firmware is open source, backdoors can only be present in the CPU itself. That is a posibility, however with Intel backdoors can be in so many more places, plus in the CPU itself. Sounds like an improvement?
- wilsonnb 8y agoAssuming people are actually auditing the open source firmware.
- ihattendorf 8y agoAnd the pre-installed firmware hasn't been modified at all.