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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by gsreenivas on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:45PM (#28351164)
Great questions: > - How to ensure the hardware is not chipped with some low level spyware?

We use a verified boot process to ensure trusted bits are running on the HW.

> - Can we install stuff on this machine? How is the upgrade process working? Do we have root on the machine if need be?

Not yet - but we are planning for customers to be able to run their own services in the future. We have quite a few updates to do before we get there. The upgrades happen OTA, seamlessly in the background. There is no root access on the machine locally or remotely.

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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do by philderbeast on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:10AM (#28355285)
how can an end user confirm this is infact true, and confirm that the updates are also free from any similar nasty issues.

can the user control the updates, including choosing when, what and if they happen.

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