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The NSA and other three-letter US agencies will be all inside this chip, or have side-channels to the firmware update mechanism, obviously. A secure operating
by lizardactivist 4y ago
The NSA and other three-letter US agencies will be all inside this chip, or have side-channels to the firmware update mechanism, obviously.
A secure operating system means nothing if the hardware itself cannot be secured, and the case for a new, trusted, transparent manufacturer of Intel-compatible CPUs and hardware in general grows stronger.
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- hoffs 4y agoObviously
- Avamander 4y agoIt's not out of the question. Though I get the feeling we're missing the forest in the trees. Smartphones with proprietary basebands have been here for more than a decade or so. It's not only Intel-compatible we need, it would really take legislation to turn all these things more transparent or controllable.