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.
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.