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One option that might be good is the Novena computer. Anybody have any thoughts on that?

by jaekwon 12y ago

walterbell 12y ago
Other than the FPGA, which the average person won't be programming, how is this different from other ARM-based dev boards with unlocked boot loader? Some software and hardware security info from a variety of perspectives: Rants on community: http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/biography-of-a-cypherpunk-and-how-cryptography-affects-your-life/ http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/biography-of-a-cyp... & http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-the-impotent-rage-against-systemd/ http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-... Rant on Linux systemd: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459 Desktop security alternatives: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-is-qubes-os-different-from.html http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-is-qubes-... Designing open crypto hardware: http://wiki.cryptech.is/ http://wiki.cryptech.is/
- jaekwon 12y ago
  Thanks, these are great resources. I'm certainly not the expert! I suppose the novena is nice because it's fairly open source hardware, and it's designed by Bunnie of the EFF.
  - walterbell 12y ago
    These are hard problems, it's good that some people are working on incremental improvements, but there likely won't be silver bullets anytime soon. George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones, uses an old computer running DOS+WordStar to write his future novels. His writing computer is air-gapped, i.e. never connected to the Internet, http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/george-r-r-martin-writes-everything-in-wordstar-4-0-on-a-dos-machine/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/george-r-r-martin-writes-ev... The CEO of AirBnB carries around the corporate strategic plan on typewritten paper, http://www.fastcompany.com/3027107/punk-meet-rock-airbnb-brian-chesky-chip-conley http://www.fastcompany.com/3027107/punk-meet-rock-airbnb-bri... Along similar old-school lines, it's not a bad idea to improve our human ability to memorize information, e.g. long passwords, http://artofmemory.com/ http://artofmemory.com/

One option that might be good is the Novena computer. Anybody have any thoughts on that?

by jaekwon 12y ago

One option that might be good is the Novena computer. Anybody have any thoughts on that?

Other than the FPGA, which the average person won't be programming, how is this different from other ARM-based dev boards with unlocked boot loader? Some software and hardware security info from a variety of perspectives: Rants on community: http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/biography-of-a-cypherpunk-and-how-cryptography-affects-your-life/ http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/biography-of-a-cyp... & http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-the-impotent-rage-against-systemd/ http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-... Rant on Linux systemd: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459 Desktop security alternatives: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-is-qubes-os-different-from.html http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-is-qubes-... Designing open crypto hardware: http://wiki.cryptech.is/ http://wiki.cryptech.is/

jaekwon 12y ago
Thanks, these are great resources. I'm certainly not the expert! I suppose the novena is nice because it's fairly open source hardware, and it's designed by Bunnie of the EFF.
- walterbell 12y ago
  These are hard problems, it's good that some people are working on incremental improvements, but there likely won't be silver bullets anytime soon. George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones, uses an old computer running DOS+WordStar to write his future novels. His writing computer is air-gapped, i.e. never connected to the Internet, http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/george-r-r-martin-writes-everything-in-wordstar-4-0-on-a-dos-machine/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/george-r-r-martin-writes-ev... The CEO of AirBnB carries around the corporate strategic plan on typewritten paper, http://www.fastcompany.com/3027107/punk-meet-rock-airbnb-brian-chesky-chip-conley http://www.fastcompany.com/3027107/punk-meet-rock-airbnb-bri... Along similar old-school lines, it's not a bad idea to improve our human ability to memorize information, e.g. long passwords, http://artofmemory.com/ http://artofmemory.com/