ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer

Re:ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer by verandaguy on Thursday September 29, 2016 @01:09PM (#12606947)

It's an interesting concept, for sure – but could someone more knowledgeable than me explain whether this leaves the system vulnerable to the potential, alleged backdoors present in Intel's chips via the Intel Management Engine?

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Re:ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer by talltower on Thursday September 29, 2016 @02:06PM (#12607442)

Our long term plan is to limit ME capabilities using the BIOS configuration. We just released the SOW of the 1st BIOS with Eltan on the WiKi. https://www.orwl.org/wiki/index.php?title=File%3ASowDESIGN-S... We are planning to investigate how to further limit ME capabilities with Eltan and we will update the SOW as we make progress. We also believe that the current secure micro controller implementation severely limit the ME capability through power management and the SSD key management.

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Re:ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer by jonathanstrange on Friday September 30, 2016 @06:24AM (#12611588)

No need for that, you just pawn it via USB.

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