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

[Ian Peter]

A firmware upgrade?


Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

>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.
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>What kind of equipment is needed for doing that? An electron microscope?
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>Greetings,
>Norbert
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>Am Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:05:28 +0530
>schrieb "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>:
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>> 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
>> this
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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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