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> When a company has the ability to push OTA updates to a device locked down with trusted computing, it's not even a backdoor at that point, it's a frontdoor.
by JoshTriplett 1y ago
> When a company has the ability to push OTA updates to a device locked down with trusted computing, it's not even a backdoor at that point, it's a frontdoor.
Ideally, everything that runs outside of an app sandbox would be 100% Open Source. Anything short of that is not sufficient to give people full confidence against a backdoor. (Even that also relies on people paying attention, but it at least gives the possibility that people outside of a company whistleblower could catch and flag a backdoor.)
- zzo38computer 1y agoI think so too. It should include full free open source specifications of hardware, as well as fully FOSS for all software that is not inside of the sandbox system, and probably also FOSS for most of the stuff that is using the sandbox, too. Other things should also be done rather than this way alone, but this will be a very important part of it.
- mulmen 1y agoOpen source alone isn’t enough. You also need a way to build and deploy the code yourself.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoAgreed. And demonstrated reproducibility showing that the result is identical.
- Xelbair 1y agoI'll go even further and bring up Trusting Trust - whole chain needs to be open source and verifiable. and you need to be able to compile each and every part of it.