Re: hardened *nix for Lenovo X60

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

I've managed to lay my hands onb a couple of Lenovo X60's that are in pretty good shape and would like to use them as a moderately secure communication/development system.

If you're paranoid about lower-level backdoors you could have a look at the open-source BIOS implementation CoreBoot(.org) which has support for the X60 series. A plus is that you get super-fast boot times! Here's Peter Stuge explaining some stuff about the project much better than I'm able to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdLhbmjrDI JC