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Open hardware might make you feel better, but it wouldn't be substantially harder for the people who control the manufacturing process to backdoor.
by superuser2 13y ago
Open hardware might make you feel better, but it wouldn't be substantially harder for the people who control the manufacturing process to backdoor.
- bigiain 13y agoI wonder if the trusting trust "two compiler workaround" could work here? Would it be possible to build a duplicated system with two (or more) of every component, then have them compare themselves to each other. Could you build similar-but-not-identical hardware, sourcing components like pci cards and disks from different vendors, to minimise the chance you've got backdoors in all sets of components? (I'm now thinking that space-shuttle-style multiple computer setups might be a starting point worth investigating.)