“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”

Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by elif on Friday November 10, 2017 @10:57AM (#15670694)

It's not that "we really don't seem to care much"

It's that even those of us that care vehemently, have no recourse. It is impossible to fight a secret police state.

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Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by goldenkey on Friday November 10, 2017 @11:41AM (#15671052)

Well with that attitude it is...

Part of winning is to even begin to believe you can fight...

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Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by TheAceOfHearts on Friday November 10, 2017 @10:14PM (#15674806)

There's ongoing work to fight against this, it just takes a very long time because the problem domain is incredibly complex.

RISC-V [0] is an open ISA that looks promising. Unfortunately, the privileged instruction set is still a draft, which is important for getting a full modern OS up and running.

lowRISC [1] is as non-profit open hardware company that has been working on a fully open RISC-V-based SoC that can run Linux. In their about page they claim it'll be ready this year.

There's also the stuff from SiFive. They have an arduino-comparible microcontroller, and have ongoing work for a 64-bit quad-core. I don't think their hardware is open, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

[1] http://www.lowrisc.org

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