https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl
looks totally cool
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El Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:43:17AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl
looks totally cool
Do you mean the aesthetics ?
It's an Intel CPU. You get ME, SMM, signed boot under Intel control, etc. They even have a section "Why Intel? Isn’t x86 Considered Harmful?" which basically says: "yes, it's harmful, but everybody uses it and there's nothing else we can do". And the "open source" section basically says "as open source as we can". The microcontroller specialised in security does not have public datasheets.
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.cat wrote:
El Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:43:17AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl
looks totally cool
Do you mean the aesthetics ?
no the idea of protecting the inside from tampering, with special casework that has micro-circuit tracks in it.
It's an Intel CPU. You get ME, SMM, signed boot under Intel control, etc. They even have a section "Why Intel? Isn’t x86 Considered Harmful?" which basically says: "yes, it's harmful, but everybody uses it and there's nothing else we can do". And the "open source" section basically says "as open source as we can". The microcontroller specialised in security does not have public datasheets.
yehh and i talked this over with someone and they said, "can we trust the SSD firmware?"
i answered, "probably not... but we did learn i believe a few years ago that the A20 can do client-side SATA, so it *might* be possible to make an SSD out of it... :) "
l.
I also really like the idea and I admire the effort put in developing it but no matter how physically secure it is, it is useless if the chip inside is already compromised. One problem I also noticed when first reading the campaign details is that if you can't access the inside of the computer but have physically access to the room that it is into, one could just hide a camera behind it and record the monitor or the keyboard, or everything at once, which makes all this physical security useless. Anyway it is great to see effort to improve physical security and if it's open or libre enough, it could be used as a basis for other projects
2016-08-25 8:03 GMT+02:00 Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.cat:
El Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:43:17AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl
looks totally cool
Do you mean the aesthetics ?
It's an Intel CPU. You get ME, SMM, signed boot under Intel control, etc. They even have a section "Why Intel? Isn’t x86 Considered Harmful?" which basically says: "yes, it's harmful, but everybody uses it and there's nothing else we can do". And the "open source" section basically says "as open source as we can". The microcontroller specialised in security does not have public datasheets.
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