Apple versus Open Fabs

[grarpamp]

On 2/19/16, Tamzen Cannoy <tamzen at cannoy.org> wrote:
> http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/19/apple-government-changed-apple-id-password/

"
    The executives said the company had been in regular discussions
with the government since early January, and that it proposed four
different ways to recover the information the government is interested
in without building a back door.

    Apple sent engineers to try that method, the executives said
"

You don't want your secure hardware provider voluntarily
"discussing" "proposing" "recovering" "sending" or "trying" anything
in the "interests" of, or with, your adversary.
If there was no court order for this... this is very troubling...
never talk to the <adversary>, only to your client.

Nor do you want your secure hardware provider to be providing
you with unverifiable, therefore quite possibly, junk.

You need open fabs producing open hardware.

Till then the only proof you have is that some adversaries
court case failed in its attack or that everyone is still standing.
Neither of which are sufficiently complete proofs positive.