[governance] Maybe something good might come out of all of this

[Norbert Bollow]

Hmm.. when the concern is about the possibility of backdoors in the
chips themselves, I wonder whether it is possible to reliably compare a
chip with what it should be like according to its source code.

What kind of equipment is needed for doing that? An electron microscope?

Greetings,
Norbert


Am Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:05:28 +0530
schrieb "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>:

> Thanks for this Ian… It seems to me to be an interesting and
> reasonable approach and even something that CS could look to include
> in it's PRISM/surveillance policy response framework…
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> I'm wondering what the downsides might be?
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> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Ian Peter
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:20 AM To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: [governance] Maybe something good might come out of all of
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> Interesting article on open source futures in response to PRISM et al
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> If we're at a point where no piece of commercial hardware or software
> can be trusted, then the only reasonable option is to rely on large
> communities of like-minded people to develop, extend, and inspect
> freely available code on a continuous basis. Essentially, we may need
> to open source everything.” 
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>  <http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/the-coming-push-open-source-everything-223011?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2013-07-22>
> http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/the-coming-push-open-source-everything-223011?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2013-07-22
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