On 2/15/19, dns1983@riseup.net dns1983@riseup.net wrote:
As regards Linux box I would say one thing: if you are worried about NSA etc.. how you could use operating systems that are not enterly free software? If your operating system contains binary blob
That can be avoided with some OS, typically stringent against them like OpenBSD.
if your mother board hasn't a free boot loader how do you know that it has not a backdoor or some vulnerability that compromise your privacy?
Unfortunately at this time, you don't, at all. You must assume that Intel CPU's and NIC's, GPU screen vision, and all that integrated shit people love, AMT/ME, even AMD PSP, etc, are all backdoored hardware. You have no proof otherwise, and extremely little next to no open audit capability to disprove it. That's really beyond sad. And your fault for not calling for it in the marketplace.
So go and start your own open fabs to make backdoor free chips and build from there. That is the ONLY way to defeat and raise open auditable credibility.
#OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenSW , #OpenDev , #OpenBiz
On the wiki too I read "we want avoid the Debian monoculture"... Yes, it would be a great thing, but which are the other non linux options that allow to run an entirely free software system?
OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Illumos, Plan9, mismatched kernel and userland combos, Windows, breadboards, etc...
And why Tails use non free Linux?
Nothing stopping you from making Whonix on BSD on Power9, or whatever else.