Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security
by stcredzero on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:09PM
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> If users truly owned their devices, with full knowledge of the hardware and control of the software + data, we would never have this discussion.
We should have a series of standardized trusted execution modules which are open source hardware and open source software. There should be a public process by which these are vetted. Watchdog groups could disassemble samples of the chips and place them under electron microscopes and otherwise examine them for tampering.
The effect of this would be to place individuals and grassroots organizations on an even playing field with corporations and governments with regards to such tools. It's a disaster for large organizations to have access to individual private information, yet it's a societal boon for such organizations to be open and for individuals to know what they are doing. The same asymmetry applies to trusted execution. It's a disaster when big organizations use it against individuals, but it would be a societal good if individuals could revoke access to their information from corporations when they break goodwill.
We should have a series of standardized trusted execution modules which are open source hardware and open source software. There should be a public process by which these are vetted. Watchdog groups could disassemble samples of the chips and place them under electron microscopes and otherwise examine them for tampering.
The effect of this would be to place individuals and grassroots organizations on an even playing field with corporations and governments with regards to such tools. It's a disaster for large organizations to have access to individual private information, yet it's a societal boon for such organizations to be open and for individuals to know what they are doing. The same asymmetry applies to trusted execution. It's a disaster when big organizations use it against individuals, but it would be a societal good if individuals could revoke access to their information from corporations when they break goodwill.