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It's way for big software and/or hardware companies to block you from running your own Linux distribution of choice. (I'm exaggerating, but only very slightly,
by otabdeveloper4 7y ago
It's way for big software and/or hardware companies to block you from running your own Linux distribution of choice.
(I'm exaggerating, but only very slightly, by a nanometer.)
- comex 7y agoOpenTitan seems to be mainly oriented towards servers, though the announcement post [1] does mention that it could also be used for client devices. [1] https://security.googleblog.com/2019/11/opentitan-open-sourcing-transparent.html https://security.googleblog.com/2019/11/opentitan-open-sourc...
- phkahler 7y agoExactly. The bottom line is hardware that will only run trusted software. The problem then becomes determining who gets to sign software. Better would be to just have a physical switch to disable firmware writes.