Open Fabs

[Steve Kinney]

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On 07/29/2015 02:37 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> Pasting in more from the truecrypt thread that should have gone
> in here...
> 
> 
> Dnia wtorek, 28 lipca 2015 21:34:07 Steve Kinney pisze:
>> If a market is willing to pay enough to support and grow the 
>> project, it can be done.  Are there potential partners and
>> large scale consumers for "top security through total
>> transparency" to make an open hardware project viable today?

> rysiek: Yes. And there are ways to create a market like that,
> albeit it takes time.

>> I haven't looked at how the Black Phone folks are doing
>> lately, but that looks like the kind of product line where
>> open hardware might find its first viable home.
> rysiek: Funny you should ask: 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2402536/us-department-of-
defence-adopts-nsa-proof-blackphone-devices

Good
> 
catch!  See also:

See also:
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/03/pentagon-rolls-out-nsa-
proof-smartphones/108892/

Must have been something in the air.  Now everybody will want
something similar - and some won't have the luxury of trusting the
NSA, NRO, ETC the same way the DoD can.  "Let's talk about the
chips in your TAO/ANT Brand scrambler phones..."  :o)

> On 07/28/2015 03:40 PM, oshwm wrote:
>> So is anyone working on building an 'openfab' or is it such a
>> big task that everyone just backs away in horror? :D
> doctor: The closest I know to that is Jeri Ellsworth, who's at
> the point of fabbing her own discrete transistors in a homebrew
> semiconductor foundry.  If she's still working on this project,
> she's probably a bit closer but I haven't spoken to her about
> it.

I do see problems with scaling DYI chip projects up to commercial
production numbers, and down in scale to achieve fast, high
capacity performance.  That's why I am much more interested in the
prospects of a manufacturing process built for radical
transparency, using "commercial best practice" technology at
conventional production facilities.

IMO the same kind of radical transparency should apply to all
industrial processes that pose large potential hazards to public
health & safety, i.e. nuclear power stations, transgenic
agriculture, etc.

:o)



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