And I think I read that Supermicro is moving production out of China because of the perceptions of risk (and/or actual risks) of sensitive electronics manufacturing there.
Forgive/ignore if this question is excessive here, but I wonder if anyone has knowledge or educated perspective to share on this: I have avoided Chinese products (like Lenovo) due to government history/means/motive/opportunity to put in backdoors or things with which I might be less comfortable than the backdoors unfortunately inserted by someone else. Just like I've been favoring AMD due to Intel's track record and evident attitude.) Yes, the US government has been reported to waylay hardware during shipping, etc., and Bruce Schneier and/or others have said the problem of vetting hardware is beyond the ability of individuals or most businesses, given the extreme economic and technical complexity involved. (And I realize that suspicion can be carried too far, and cost/benefit estimates can sometimes even favor less caution, but one has to choose whom to work with, given tradeoffs and an imperfect world. I know Theo has said in efffect that hardware security is not a problem OBSD can address, and if that is the final answer, OK.) But I wonder sometimes if anyone knows of a laptop &/or desktop vendor where the odds seem most favorable, maybe why you think so, and where they are likely to work with OBSD. (System76, librem, dell, small/local manufacturers)? (My audio, video, and battery needs are minimal, but *quiet* effective thermal management, & 16GB+ RAM are important, and reliability & compilation speed.) AMD CPUs preferred, as going exotic sounds like more $ and harder to get spare parts. And I probably don't have the ability now or later to become expert at choosing many individual components. Thanks in advance. -- Luke Call Things I want to say to many (a lightly-loading site): http://lukecall.net (updated 2019-06-09) On 06-15 15:11, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019-06-15, ms <m...@it-infrastrukturen.org> wrote: > > There were some serious security issues with hardware and software from > > Supermicro (espionage chips, firmware) > > Assuming you mean the allegations in that Bloomberg piece, there was no > evidence found supporting them. > > https://hackaday.com/2019/05/14/what-happened-with-supermicro/ etc > > There are the usual problems with BMC security, cpu bugs, etc, but those > are by no means unique to supermicro. > >
