On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:50:41PM -0500, Richard Brooks wrote: > Actually, you also need to have source code for the compilers > used and the compiler's compilers...
Yes, we have those. We have systems completely produced from source and others that are working on complete reproduceability. > And that ignores the use of hardware trojans. No, it puts things in perspective. Hardware backdoors I think are more likely to be suitable for targeted surveillance, not mass surveillance. Targeted surveillance is not a problem for democracy as much as bulk surveillance, so I consider that progress. Also having to bring backdoors down into the hardware drives up the cost of surveillance. That is good. Surveillance must be expensive if we want democracy to prevail. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
