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https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#whatcaniuse
K, probably have known but didn't really care enough to try and hope I don't brick my PC. Happy now?
Puri.sm is the newest breed of manufacturer that got Intel ME disabled. So, I believe they could save us. Or go with good old T400 laptops and Libreboot and a free/libre OS on top of it.
It seems there is already working attack on Intel ME. This one is local (over usb), but it is just a matter of time when similar attack over eth appears...
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/65327/hacking/intel-management-engine-flaw-hack.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2017-5689
Get a chrome book, these run on ARM and google runs there own solution on there, put Debian on, problem solved.
But no idea how good this performs.
Nah, as said above:
Modern ARM contains TrustZone, which is a small separate CPU in a CPU, running proprietary secret code. Who knows which backdoors it might contain. Maybe ARM is not worse than Intel, but it's not any better either.
So, we are doomed, crap. Go and buy AMD FX.
Oh, that's just the part (tip of the iceberg) that happened to be discovered...
I am waiting for the moment, when they use the Network exploit and open Servers and Desktops like tin cans.
Thats gonna be fun
Such exploit might exist already...
I am sure that it already exists, just the question of time when it goes BIG.
Sure.
If only we could use routers with MIPS, as desktops
and servers.MIPS is not in the best state right now, but still there is some MIPS hardware powerful enough to be used as a light desktop.
2018 will be known as the year of OpenWRT on the desktop.
It supports Debian, thanks.
apt-get install luci-ssl
fwiw they only started using MINIX recently. It was ThreadX RTOS for years until they changed to MINIX. Much smaller attack surface.
I can't wait for iTron to make a comeback.
The Russians don't have only the Baikal T1 (which isn't exactly hot and arm based iirc). They have, for instance also their own sparc based (and heavily enhanced) multicores (currently 4 but the 8-core is near production) which, to make it funnier, can also be grouped; I have seen boards with 4 of them.
The Chinese also have risc (even mips) based processors and they are not at all lousy.
And, risking to sound crazy, there's still the PIC Mipsen. Granted they are mcus but still, those are good enough for many things.
And of course there's the growing risc-v (not a mips but a risc anyway and very promising - and "clean").
In other words: We are doomed because we are (have allowed government and business to make us) pampered idiots needing a bloated fat clickedy-click Mega-Gui system even on a phone. kde and gnome are about as insane, bloated crap as is windows; hundreds of MB of memory needed just for a start screen. Another example: it seems to be utterly normal nowadays for an editor package to be in the 50 - 150 MB range ... oh and don't get me started on browsers...
@bsdguy uses only government-approved Qt based widgets.
LIAR! You know quite well that actually I only use a KDE based distro running as a browser plugin. That's for sakkurity. Unlike certain gentlemen here (I can afford to be unspecific as anyone knows that you are meant anyway) I do care about sakkurity. That's also the reason I don't use the intel hw prng but only good stuff from an rsa stick.
I was actually fairly impressed by the functionality of KDE 2. I finally dug into it during KDE 3. I was no longer impressed with the ideology- even if their shitty browser was better than Netscape.
The current Elbrus lineup is not SPARC-based, they are entirely their own VLIW architecture.
But while Baikal MIPS seems okayish, I would not trust Elbrus, the only compiler existing for that very complex architecture is proprietary, and they almost take pride in how many "trade secrets" it contains, with "no chance in hell" wrt open-sourcing it.
Makes me wonder how many backdoors it also happens to contain.
Holy fuck are they hiring? The 90s were pretty awesome.
Yes: http://mcst.ru/vakansis
Prepare to learn Русский and relocate.
Vodka is good; I can deal.
Oops, you are right, I mixed them up.
However, I find the Elbrus processors extremely interesting from a technical pov.
Regarding trust, oh well, we've all heard it day and night how super evil them Russians are. I, however, have another view: wrt intel, amd, arm we know that they can't be trusted and have backdoors - with the Elbrus processors there is a reasonable chance that they can be trusted (and yes, I generally tend to trust the Russians).
But as I said the processors aren't the real problem; the real problem is stupidity, ignorance, limitless greed, and crappy bloatware i.a. as "OS". As someone working also with mcus (in my case typ. 16 bit and occasionally 32 bit) I know what can be done with very little memory and a cpu which has a performance similar to that of an 8086 or maybe 80286.
I am with you, son. You just have to believe in me. No need to fear.