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You can in theory. In practice buying hardware that is 10x more expensive is not really viable. Mullvad is already fairly specialized mostly for privacy nerds a

by nickik 7y ago

You can in theory. In practice buying hardware that is 10x more expensive is not really viable. Mullvad is already fairly specialized mostly for privacy nerds and there are just not enough people who car about the potential security of Intel ME. Improving the state-of-the-art step by step on the platform that dominates the market will lead to more security gain overall then using what is essentially specialized hardware.

justinjlynn 7y ago
You and I could probably debate at length the merits of the trade-offs involved and the effect such trade-offs would have on fulfilling any given threat model. The point I was making is that it's not 10x as expensive now, it's probably 3-4x, and that cost is likely to become lower in the future anyhow. It's not specialised in the sense that it's single purpose - it's niche, so, the implication of "special purpose" in the computing sense, as in limited in functionaly for the purpose of greatly improved performance for specific tasks, doesn't really apply.