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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by throwaway77384 on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:38PM (#13786255)
Libreboot and coreboot are trying to open source things on the software side of things (think dd-wrt or openwrt or tomato for routers, custom firmware basically). With hardware it's a bit of a different story. You hear about attempts from time to time, but getting away from Intel / AMD is really hard. The suggestions from the article about alternative architectures seem to be our best bet currently.
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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by jasonkostempski on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:12PM (#13786617)
Alternative architectures is definitely the most pragmatic thing to go for. I was going off on a bit of a tangent from the article and just wondering if anyone has tried redoing the 70's - 90's without trying to be compatible with any existing technology but still learning from the mistakes.
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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by RandomOpinion on Friday March 03, 2017 @07:21PM (#13788236)
The crowdfunded Open-V implementation of RISC V comes to mind.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/onchip/open-v

However, it doesn't look like they're going to come remotely close to hitting their funding goal. Fabricating chips is expensive.

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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by eternalvision on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:42PM (#13786961)
Pure speculation: Any entity that obtains the (financial, other) resources necessary to help facilitate such fundamental subversion is eventually convinced that the status quo is necessary to our survival.
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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by 1001101 on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:58PM (#13786473)
Their attempts will be just that. There's a SHA256 signature required to verify the ME code - no signature, no boot (or boot for 30 mins less commonly). They won't share the keys with just anyone.
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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by zvalqoh on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:34PM (#13786873)
It's sha256?

I wonder if a Bitcoin shared mining setup could co-op some of those hashes to brute force the keys.

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