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BR 549 ☎
in reply to Nanook • •remember what we learned from Snowden: the NSA has everything it can get its claws into.
just maybe, if you are communicating via P2P with strong encryption, and the end points are Risc-V prototypes with a boot block under your control, then maybe you can have a private conversation.
Nanook
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in reply to Nanook • •spacedream
in reply to Nanook • • •is no maybe here, no hope. intel or amd, no matter folks. everything you see on your screen - they can see it too. period. its was done by design in the first place.
Nanook
in reply to spacedream • •BR 549 ☎
in reply to spacedream • •@spacedream RiscV. Prototype silicon. Or, maybe an old Cyrix 486.
if AMD or Intel build a RiscV chip, of course it will have one of their coprocessors on it, for some bullshit reason.
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in reply to spacedream • •BR 549 ☎
in reply to Nanook • •the systems I described do not have coprocessors to support a ME. so, no Minix.
they may have other defects, but no ME. one is a really old processor, pre-2000, and the other is new but a prototype without a lot of internal complexity. (the prototype RiscV chips are probably going to be scarce; I'm starting to see advertising for SoC versions of them)
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in reply to Nanook • • •but what make you think you talking with person who know no sht? ;)
Nanook
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in reply to Nanook • • •correct. many.
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in reply to Nanook • •both Robert and I are old farts -- we have watched the computer industry mutate and metastasize through the decades.
for what it's worth, the chip in your cellphone would have been a 'supercomputer' in 1990. but this thread isn't about that. it is about security.
and, security can only be had by abandoning some of our complexity. building your 'supercomputer' out of compromised chips from monopolistic corporations is not the way.
Nanook
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in reply to Nanook • •about ten years ago, I built my own server for the house here. it was based on a little POS computer I got for cheap off of Newegg. it had a Cyrix 486 and 16MB of RAM, as I recall, on a small motherboard with a common bus, what was it called? anyway, I got a cheap NIC for it, and loaded this operating system.
it was more for the challenge of installing a new system from scratch, etc. it loaded from a removable disk, as I recall. and it was interesting to enable logging, and watch it from my desktop, the sheer quantity of malicious packets coming in. if you would ping it from some other place, it would not respond -- basically a black hole in the 'net.
eventually I abandoned it, because I upgraded my DSL and it was too slow. but it was interesting.
Nanook
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Unknown parent • •@spacedream same here, I'll believe it when I see it.
also, it isn't clear how this reduces complexity. . .
spacedream
in reply to Nanook • • •yeah! 😁 i did read it, Robert, in your first post i read from you days back. surely its was lots of fun. i did play a little with fido-net in twenty years back but not much as i wish by now (if i have time machine) as internets was growing already faster and giving so much to learn.
Nanook
in reply to spacedream • •BR 549 ☎
in reply to Nanook • •it was a PCI bus. the NIC had a PCI bus, and the motherboard had a spare slot.
interestingly, someone had written a web server for it in BASH, in amazingly few lines. on the internal network you could simply open the web page for status and control. everything was RAM based, so logfiles would rotate very quickly into /dev/null. if anyone wanted to run malware on it, they'd have to make it super small. unpacking a compressed file would likely fill up RAM and cause a reset.
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in reply to Nanook • •ha, they are still working on it --
bering-uclibc.zetam.org/wiki/M…
I should get hold of a small SBC and try it again . .
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in reply to Nanook • • •someone mentioned hw as
its can be useful.