[cryptome] Re: Buying a A New Laptop? - coreboot
- From: "Douglas Rankine" <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:46:15 -0000
Hi Core TX,
I did like that Chinese netbook with the linux stuff on it. I liked their
little computer as well. Quite impressive reading all the research they have
done on it to try and make it successful for the market place. I can see now,
that I asked a really stoopid question...Maybe the backdoor in the armour of
the chain of security is a small Chinese one... Even the thermal noise of the
various components in a computer creates a unique identifier. Ah Well! Back
to the drawing board...plenty of time yet. I think I might get meself one of
those 3 d printers and print meself a new brain... J. Trouble will be finding
the right software for it... J.
ATB
Dougie.
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Behalf Of Core TX
Sent: 16 March 2015 10:07
To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cryptome] Re: Buying a A New Laptop? - coreboot
Here you have a picture of your quoted "from foot eating", yet brilliant RMS
with a Lemote: http://i.imgur.com/XXX4Qnq.jpg
And yes, this contains the Loongson. :)
2015-03-16 11:03 GMT+01:00 Core TX <coretx@xxxxxxxxx>:
Loongson CPU's might not be publicly audited, but they are being used by the
Chinese government for security purposes.
This means that the 5 eyes network at least has to put a lot of energy into
hacking it.
Whereas American CPU's certainly are owned already.
Unless you are Chinese or involved with their (geo)politics, this makes them a
sensible option.
2015-03-16 2:47 GMT+01:00 coderman <coderman@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 3/15/15, Core TX <coretx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The librem-laptop contains a Intel CPU. = Spyware.
for some definitions, everything is spyware. go unabomber or try to
make less bad?
> Your primary solution ( x200 with coreboot ), but also contains a Intel CPU
> and some shady parts that
> have not undergone audits.
show me an audited chip that isn't an openRISC! :P
> All that software freedom is totally useless if you can't trust the
> hardware.
"Why We Need Free Digital Hardware Designs" by RMS
https://www.wired.com/2015/03/need-free-digital-hardware-designs/
coreboot let's you prune some badness, but trade-offs abound. (and
distro can reverse your ucode update aversion with a single pkg add.)
we could get into specifics, but i'm either preaching to the choir or
way over heads...
best regards,
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