Re "Open hardware is always free of faults."
We have seen what the best names in some sectors of the computing community did for security for years.
PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Open software and open hardware is a good start at having a few people have a look at computer security.
The big brands keep failing.
Generations of failed hardware, junk encryption, CPU's, OS and networking. Backdoors, trapdoors.
Nobody expects perfection. Just some quality control for the amount paid.
Just not shipping junk encryption, OS and generations of CPU would be a great start.
Good software by good people can then be designed and tested over good hardware.
Freedom demands Open Hardware also (Score:0)
OpenCores.org
J-Core.org
riscv.org
gaisler.com
OpenSPARC
There is a path forward, but it will take Fab relationships and people willing to test and then buy the first practical and fully open systems...
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This is a question of quality, not idealism and perverse incentives.
We aren't talking about IME here. You seem to be blindly assuming that Open hardware is always free of faults.
Re: (Score:4, Informative)
We have seen what the best names in some sectors of the computing community did for security for years.
PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Open software and open hardware is a good start at having a few people have a look at computer security.
The big brands keep failing.
Generations of failed hardware, junk encryption, CPU's, OS and networking. Backdoors, trapdoors.
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Proprietary software tends to be imperfect. Proprietary hardware tends to be imperfect. Free and Open Source software tends to be imperfect.
Complete the square: what should we expect of Free and Open Source hardware?
If your answer is 'perfection', I remind you that we're discussing engineering problems, not mathematical proofs.
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Just not shipping junk encryption, OS and generations of CPU would be a great start.
Good software by good people can then be designed and tested over good hardware.
Re:Freedom demands Open Hardware also (Score:2)
"Nobody expects perfection. Just some quality control for the amount paid. "
And support after sale, rather than abandoning the product when it gets "too hard" to handle problems.