On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Ryan Carboni
In the end, you can only trust something you can understand, otherwise you are trusting the word of someone else.
While ultimately true, it is certainly possible to create a far more trustable model than the totally blind "We are the corp / gov (or any other closed source single point opaque authority, trade secret IPR, NDA), *You can trust us*" that idiots happily accept today.
the original computers used relays, switches, and wires to be programmed.
There can be parallel lines of open inspection and cross certification of fully open ground up rebuilds all the way to current HW and SW products... ie: Processor, OS. The rebuild path, both of tooling itself and product, from relays to vacuum tubes to silicon to gigagate masks is already known form history, thus requires zero research. The research is in how to do the rebuild under a model that imparts explicit open reliable reviewable documented n-man rule realtime operating and historical chain of reasonably bulletproof trust. #OpenFabs, #OpenHW, #OpenSW Such a project could be seeded and continuously funded by #CryptoCurrencies, #DAOs, #EarlyAdopters, #CypherPunks, and eventually, sales of product runs None of today's opaque HW gates are remotely trustworthy, any attempts to impart trust to them are no more than foolish speculation.