[tor-bugs] #21254 [Applications/Tor Browser Sandbox]: Deprecate x86 and arm support.

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#21254: Deprecate x86 and arm support.
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     Reporter:  cypherpunks          |      Owner:  yawning
         Type:  defect               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  High                 |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor     |    Version:
  Browser Sandbox                    |   Keywords:  sandbox-security
     Severity:  Normal               |  Yawning201612
Actual Points:                       |  Parent ID:  #20940
       Points:                       |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:                       |
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 >There's lots of reasons why this is a good idea:
 >* All x86-compatible CPUs and arm core are developed by USA-based
 companies which will do anything NSA wants them do.
 >* They contain hardware backdoors: Management Engine, its analogues,
 TPMs, SecureBoot, Anti-Theft, DRM, SGX, TrustZone.
 >* Shadow stack-related headaches.
 >* Supporting hardware I don't have, running software I don't use, to
 ultimately obtain results that are empirically worse than the other
 supported
 platform is a poor use of development time.
 >* AnyShittyDistro gave up on supporting x86 and arm for kernel.

 Chinesse allwinner and loongsoon are our only hopes ;)!

 More seriously, if anyone is using 32 bit OS, this means he have to use
 that shit because his hardware is shit. In fat it is not quite shit
 because it was manufactured before all these backdoors in consumer
 electronics have appeared, so it can be considered clean. I expect that in
 a few years that old <s>shit</s>hardware will cost more than a supernew
 superfast superbackdoored superglamour superpatriotic "hi-end" one.

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