#OpenFabs Ground Up Rebuild [re: secure computer]

[grarpamp]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.