On 03/06/2018 12:10 AM, Tim W wrote:
Wownfine I give up h you ha e read so much into my commemts that I never
intnnded whatever. Tell the guy that wants a high end laptop to buy a power pc
or a talonto run qubes ofc it.
Xen doesn't support POWER, which is why I suggested the x86_64 KCMA-D8
and KGPE-D16 for a qubes desktop.
I always mention the TALOS 2 anyway as despite the fact that the xen
developers haven't released a POWER port of xen it does support hardware
virtualization via POWER-KVM and POWER-IOMMU so one can use it for a
server or secure workstation concept just without the qubes inter-VM
usability enhancements - the TALOS 2 is significantly faster than even
the latest intel/amd server hardware and has many more features for a
lower price than current high end x86_64 server hardware.
Or to use those ausu boards as that will make angreat laptop. Since every
piiece of hardware you use om those syztems is 100% opensource I guess that
includes the harddrive firmware w.
Hard drive firmware isn't part of a motherboard; irregardless all of my
suggested systems feature an IOMMU which prevents a rogue drive firmware
from attacking the system memory via DMA.
One could also buy an open source firmware SSD from the OpenSSD project.
As this op wants a laptop though please name a single open that meets the
standards you speak of with no close sourced firmware and drivers.
The novena would fit that category but it doesn't have an IOMMU thus I
suggest the G505S wherein the only DMA capable device that requires a
binary blob for hardware initiation is the video card - system memory is
of course protected via IOMMU-GFX on that model so it can't really do
anything bad.
"X thing is 90% good not 100% so don't bother at all!!!11"
Becuase no LE agencies in the USA ha e ever used backdoor firmware on
hardrives.
They have not, that is beyond their capabilities and costs many hundreds
of thousands to develop for a single drive model - there are many far
easier ways to further an investigation.
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