Re:Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance
by lmm on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:38AM
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Development work is expensive. A cheap turnkey way of building a locked-down, remote-attesting distribution is going to make the bad things cheaper and more common. I'm sure proprietary developers would get there eventually, but this is one class of software where I think publishing a stable, bug-free implementation that anyone can use does more harm than good.
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Re:Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance
by viraptor on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:31AM
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It's been already done many times. You can lock down your own machine from scratch in a couple of days with no prior knowledge. There's really nothing to hide and all elements of it are useful in their own right.
Re:Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance
by zxzax on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @08:52AM
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How? You can use this to secure your own devices from tampering. Lots of (cheap) devices are already locked down like this, would it really help to deprive yourself of the capability to secure your own devices too?