Makers: Open Simple LIDAR

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:11:00AM +0000, Steven Schear wrote:
> Without having open hardware designs and trusted fabs about the best you
> can do is use as many discrete components as possible and FPGAs (whose
> designs greatly minimize places to hide backdoors). Definitely avoid SoCs.
> 
> These guys appear to be using some of the best ideas:
> https://puri.sm/

Ack!

I've unsubbed from main stream hw provider "latest discount" mailing
lists just recently, having discovered Purism.

They're a great step in the right direction, notwithstanding current
limitations.



> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 9:11 PM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >         "we are working on encrypting the entire ledger using Intel
> > >         SGX, such that no human has access to the raw unencrypted data
> > >         "
> >
> > "SGX isn't perfect - life is full of tradeoffs, and I'd love to move
> > to zero knowledge proofs once the technology has developed further"
> >
> > "Intel ME isn't a backdoor - it's just a secondary computer"
> >
> > "it's treated as part of the chipset so the tools for doing so were
> > given to computer manufacturers, not end users."
> >
> > Right, a computer you have no fucking idea what it does,
> > what's inside it, what it's software is, or how to own it.
> > And you want to put money and secrets on it
> > and connect it to the internet? Lol.
> >
> > Not that it matters since the entire planet runs
> > on completely closed and thus untrustable
> > hardware, and software, connected to the internet.
> >
> > Sane people would rather trust opensource math
> > than closed hardware, or at least call out that
> > their worshipped hardware is in fact... closed.
> >
> > There's just no excuse for not publicly loudly calling out
> > closed shit and demanding #OpenFabs , #OpenHW .
> >
> > Instead of doing that, seems like everyone bought
> > the "security is number one" kool-aid Intel spun out
> > during Meltdown / Spectre / etc. Fools.
> >