> open hardware is precisely as trustworthy as closed hardware Nice work but the conclusion is absolutely unwarranted: Security is all about mitigating risk.

> open hardware is precisely as trustworthy as closed hardware Nice work but the conclusion is absolutely unwarranted: Security is all about mitigating risk. With closed hardware, as much as software, it becomes much easier to implement backdoors but also hide who did it and when. Unsurprising, a lot of closed source comes with spyware functions - look at the phone "app market". By all means an FPGA is better than trusting a SoC, but this does not mean that all hardware is the same. Management Engine is a good counterexample.