Le lundi 28 mars 2016 à 20:50 +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli a écrit : > Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@no-log.org> > --- > freedom-privacy-security-issues.php | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php b/freedom-privacy-security- > issues.php > index d218230..5332b8b 100644 > --- a/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php > +++ b/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php > @@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ > <h3>The current situation of freedom and > privacy/security on mobile devices</h3> > <p> > A mobile device respecting the users' freedom > would have:<ul><li>Free hardware</li><li>Free firmwares</li><li>Free modem > system</li><li>Free bootrom and bootloader</li><li>Free system and > applications</li></ul>Regarding <a href="#free-hardware">free hardware</a>, it > barely exist as of today. > - Modifying hardware is nearly impossible: new > versions of the hardware have to be produced, and those are expensive. > + The ways of modifying existing hardware are > very limited. > + Because of that, new versions of the hardware > have to be produced to carry the modifications, and this is expensive. > While producing printed circuit boards (PCBs) > costs a lot of money, producing integrated circuits is out of reach. > - A few devices come with schematics for the > PCB, but that's usually as far as it gets. > + A few devices come with schematics, or full > design files for the PCB, but that's usually as far as it gets. > Hence, totally-free hardware doesn't exist > yet.
I agree with the change above. > + While design for FPGAs do exist in free > software licenses, FPGAs are not practical enough to be used to replace ASICs > in smartphones, and most of them even proprietary software tools. See the follow-up discussion on v1 of this patch. I believe that talking about FPGAs in the context of Replicant is not relevant, because it's out of the scope of mobile devices, so I think we should simply get rid of it. > </p> > <p> > Firmwares running inside integrated circuits > are most of the time proprietary.
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