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Assume Vulnerability
In this episode of The Fourth Leg, Philip Reiner and Alexa Wehsener sit down with the High Priest of Coreboot, Ron Minnich. They dive into the substance of his paper, “Hardware that is Less Untrusted: Open Source Down to the Silicon” and discuss software, firmware, and hardware vulnerabilities and the value of open source code.
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June 8, 2020
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Hardware that is Less Untrusted: Open Source Down to the Silicon
In an essay out of the workshop "Last Chance: Communicating at the Nuclear Brink," Ron Minnich argues "We can not build on a foundation that is compromised at all levels. There is no visibility into the system's behavior. The existing model assumes perfect software: 'Trust, but don't verify." We need to start anew, from the gates, and work our way up.
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June 9, 2020
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