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Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices by bobthebuilders on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:43PM (#25242241)
The CPU architecture is open source for one, and the boards are designed in such a way as to make outside verification easier. Excited to get my hands on one!
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Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices by mhh__ on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:45PM (#25242561)
The architecture isn't the chip itself.
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Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices by tsimionescu on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:28AM (#25243344)
So is a lot of malware, that doesn't mean the specification matches the final build. And even if you can verify the board, you can't verify the chip itself or any other IC.
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