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Hardware Backdoors Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 16:01:51 No.8827

Are there any laptops on the market without hardware backdoors like Intel Management Engine or AMD Platform Security Processor? There's a group working on building a Power ISA based laptop (since IBM made Power ISA open source in 2019.) This is the only modern hardware that I know of without a backdoor, but it's not in production yet. https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/faq/

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 16:17:32 No.8828

Old Thinkpads with Libreboot are the only option AFAIK.
I hope we eventually get an OpenPOWER/RISC V machine with verified boot for a GNU/Linux distro with SELinux. That would finally give us a FLOSS machine with all the security of Windows 10 S Mode/new Macs/iOS/Google Pixel (even Qubes is nowhere near as secure as any of these because it has no verified boot).

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 17:40:33 No.8829

Pinebooks run on ARM. There's also Purism and System76 computers with Intel's NSA backdoor "disabled" and with coreboot installed over Microsoft's UEFI backdoor.

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 17:42:33 No.8830

>>8828
>verified boot
>secure
Microsoft has the fucking golden key, there is nothing secure about it.

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 18:05:26 No.8831

>>8830
every notable security researcher disagrees with you

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 18:54:56 No.8832

>>8829
>Purism and System76 computers with Intel's NSA backdoor "disabled"
Do you know how they do it and if it can be done to other computers? I haven't found any info about it.

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 19:12:16 No.8835

>>8831
I thought most linux distros had secure boot keys. Qubes doesn't?

Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 19:12:49 No.8836

>>8832
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

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