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Alternatives are already being built and released, both hardware and software. There will simply be more divide between know-how people who can save their free
by dontneedajacket 5y ago
Alternatives are already being built and released, both hardware and software.
There will simply be more divide between know-how people who can save their freedom (tech people, friends, family) and the rest who get left behind.
Now, if we get to China and North Korea levels of authoritarianism and people start snitching on each other, then that's a whole other problem :-)
- bitwize 5y agoUntil Jeri Ellsworth MacGyvers together a way to make Ryzens with some sand and an Easy-Bake Oven, we are at the mercy of the chip manufacturers, all of whom would gladly add spyware to their chips' must-have-in-order-to-boot firmware with minimal arm twisting from the USG/CCP, if that. And President Biden has already started urging people to report extremists to the goverment.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat isn't going to happen. Jeri Ellsworth is fantastic at what she does but there are some hard to get around physical limits in terms of material purity and once you get to a certain degree of integration that pretty much guarantees a yield of 0 until you spend a very large amount of money.
- bitwize 5y agoThen we will always be beholden to large chipmakers who will crumple to governments at the drop of a hat and implement whatever spyware they desire on-die.
- jacquesm 5y agoNot necessarily. But it is a hard problem to solve. If you can't trust complex hardware your options are limited to using simpler systems where a part that behaves in an undefined way could still be detected.