On Friday, February 10, 2017 at 2:56:15 PM UTC-8, Oleg Artemiev wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 6:38 PM, pixel fairy <pixelfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 3:54:03 AM UTC-8, Oleg Artemiev wrote:
> >> Does this mean that USB qube is now useless as a security border on > >> such a mother board? > > only if the manufacturer has it enabled. the only vendor who got back to me > > (and knew what i was talking about) when i asked was system76 to confirm > > that it is disabled on their lemur series. > > puri.sm was aware, but doesnt have any hardware out using those chips. > So finally it is a question of trusting the vendor (and their public > relations personnel who may think that those capabilities are not > really disabled. yes, or a cheap data cable if you already have the hardware. unfortunately, its easy for a vendor to say they're good and then say "oops" if they're not, and called out on it. we need better competition in security conscious hardware. > Shouldn't these CPUs and motherboards be specially noted as dangerous > in qubes HCL? agreed, but i think its up to Andrew David Wong (i hope that triggers a mention notice so he sees this) > -- > Bye.Olli. > gpg --search-keys grey_olli , use key w/ fingerprint below: > Key fingerprint = 9901 6808 768C 8B89 544C 9BE0 49F9 5A46 2B98 147E > Blog keys (the blog is mostly in Russian): > http://grey-olli.livejournal.com/tag/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/49b07bad-1fb0-46d5-bdb3-19e639662436%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
