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> What a time to be alive. What?! It's 2022 and all CPUs and chipsets are closed source, incredibly complex, designed by very few companies and manufactured by
by goodpoint 4y ago
> What a time to be alive.
What?! It's 2022 and all CPUs and chipsets are closed source, incredibly complex, designed by very few companies and manufactured by a monopolist (TSMC).
End users are increasing using laptop and phones (instead of desktops) that are entirely proprietary and not modular.
All hardware runs tons of closed source software below ring 0, with no way to remove it for 99.9% of users.
Hardware security vulnerabilities abound. As complexity increases every year, reliably detecting bugdoors/backdoors has become a pipe dream.
- troyvit 4y agoEverything you say is true. It's been true to some degree since the beginning of consumer-level computing. What is also true though is that open companies like Framework and System76 (who I work for) actually are developing the power and scale to push back on this paradigm and ... sorry for the drama ... bring out a new era of open hardware, software and firmware. It's so hard to claw back freedom from these megaliths, but it is actually happening.