I’ve concluded that open hardware is precisely as trustworthy as closed hardware. Which is to say, I have no inherent reason to trust either at all. While open hardware has the opportunity to empower users to innovate and embody a more correct and transparent design intent than closed hardware, at the end of the day any hardware of sufficient complexity is not practical to verify, whether open or closed. Even if we published the complete mask set for a modern billion-transistor CPU, this “source code” is meaningless without a practical method to verify an equivalence between the mask set and the chip in your possession down to a near-atomic level without simultaneously destroying the CPU.
Can We Build Trustable Hardware? by Andrew “bunnie” Huang
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people in my neighborhood have been tacking up kids drawings to the telephone poles and I love it. ❤️📷🌈 #mbmay micro.welltempered.net/2020/04/2…
💬 “There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.” —Wendell Berry www.plough.com/en/topics… #mbmay micro.welltempered.net/2020/04/2…
💬 “The history of the U.S., the history of Americans, is the history of reconciling the unreconcilable: individual freedom & community freedom. There is no way to reconcile the enduring psyche of the slaveholder with the enduring psyche of the enslaved.” – Ibram X. Kendi
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💬 Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. source
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