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It just seems like we're moving trust further and further down the stack. Sure, you can do verification of your OS, but then the question becomes can you trust
by Forbo 5y ago
It just seems like we're moving trust further and further down the stack. Sure, you can do verification of your OS, but then the question becomes can you trust your firmware, hardware, etc.
- fennecfoxen 5y agoTime to reflect on trusting trust. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
- hn_version_0023 5y agoIt seems to me the real question becomes can you trust governments? Increasingly the answer seems to be “no, not at all” Treating the public like the enemy is a good way to destroy trust in all its forms.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> can you trust your firmware, hardware, etc. Nope. We'll never have truly free computing until we can make our own hardware at home. Just like we can make free software at home. Governments will eventually decide that unrestricted computers that run arbitraty code are too subversive. They turn laws into a joke. They destroy entrenched business models. Stuff like copyright barely makes any sense now that networked computers exist. Encryption alone is a potent enough weapon to defeat militaries They don't want the masses to have access to such a poweful thing. Industries and governments are completely aligned on this matter.