Re:Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
by joshavant on Monday February 16, 2015 @07:07PM
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Sorry, not an answer to your question, but I did think about this while reading the article, and these new findings do seem to make Richard Stallman's 'entirely free and open laptop' efforts seem not so crazy, after all.
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Re:Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
by lifeisstillgood on Monday February 16, 2015 @08:41PM
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No one thinks the rationale for the free and open laptop is crazy. Just the cost and capability.
That said, right now there is not a single hardware manufacturer in the world who is not open to government pressure.
Perhaps the only answer to all this is to make our institutions irrevocably open - that there are open publicised hardware standards and means of verifying the circuits are the design expected.