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Retail hardware actually has a better track record at the moment than bespoke, closed market devices. ANOM was a trap and most closed encryption schemes are hid

• devops99 2y ago
  Bespoke but-not-really-bespoke closed-market devices made by the right people are very secure, but they are not sold to the profane (you). > ANOM was a trap Yes, ANOM was intended to be a trap. > and most closed encryption schemes are hideously buggy Yes they are. Hence some of us use open encryption schemes on our closed-market devices. > You're actually better off with Android and signal. I am better off with closed-market devices than I am with any retail device. > If we had open baseband it would be better And the ability to audit what is loaded on the handset, and the ability to reflash, etc. In the real-world all we have so far is punting this problem over to another compute board. > Perfect security isn't possible. Perhaps, but I was not after "perfect security", I was just after "security" and no retail device will ever give me that, but a closed-market device already has. > See "reflections on trusting trust". Already saw it. You're welcome to see: - https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/reproducible-computations-with-guix/ - https://reproducible-builds.org - https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/