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Remember when Microsoft would trash Linux because it was open source and "not secure." Well, this settles it. Using your own hardware and open source software h
by electic 13y ago
Remember when Microsoft would trash Linux because it was open source and "not secure." Well, this settles it. Using your own hardware and open source software helps but someone determined will still get in...
- untog 13y agoEven "your own hardware" is going to be pretty damn hard: working with chipmakers to insert back doors So you're going to need to make your own chips, too.
- captainmojo 13y agohttp://opencores.org/or1k/Main_Page http://opencores.org/or1k/Main_Page
- wiml 13y agoThe following isn't directly applicable to your suggestion, but it's a reminder that an FPGA, just like a CPU, may not be doing exactly and only what you told it to do: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/sec_news.html#Backdoor http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/sec_news.html#Backdoor > Abstract. This paper is a short summary of the first real world detection of a backdoor in a military grade FPGA. [....] The backdoor was found to exist on the silicon itself, it was not present in any firmware loaded onto the chip. [....]
- rahoulb 13y agoRMS doesn't seem such an extremist any more.
- javert 13y agoI don't agree with RMS on much, but this just goes to show that calling people "extremist" is a logical fallacy. There is only correct and incorrect, and the margin by which something deviates from a commonly accepted norm is irrelevant to judging that.
- pja 13y agoRefusing to rely on the RNG in Intel processors doesn't seem particularly unreasonable in the light of this revelation does it?