Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-09-03 Thread demos
Dear all, The GNU people would like to make some hardware and software recommendations to circumvent the FCC Hardware Lock-down which potentially threatens Open Wireless Communities especially. Help us completing this table of Libre hardware boards! https://wiki.c3d2.de/HardwareRecommendation Th

Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-09-01 Thread aka
Some mainboards also contain drivers in their firmware. One MSI board I had injected 32 and 64bit drivers into a running windows, they were intel chipset drivers. Many mainboards and notebooks do that. Some of them use documentated UEFI features where windows searches for those blocks in memory, ve

Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-08-31 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Intel has AMT and opaque microcode updates, other CPU vendors have > similar fun hardware features. > > Further reading regarding AMT from the FSF: > > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology Some Intel docs indi

Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-08-30 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 8/29/15, blaatenator wrote: > Hi all, > > The talk of Jacob at DebConf (especially the Citizen Four Q&A) got me > thinking about hardware. I know that hardware rng's are suspect, and > probably AES cpu extensions as well. And if Lenovo openly puts stuff in > the BIOS, who knows what else might

Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-08-30 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > On 2015-08-29 11:46, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > what about https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2? > > Have one running here, very stable. > Moreso than the pi. > hehe.. I've also one with 1GB of ram (+heat sink), totally de

Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-08-29 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
On 2015-08-29 11:46, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > what about https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2? Have one running here, very stable. Moreso than the pi. Udo -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torprojec

Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-08-29 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 10:55:02 +0200 blaatenator wrote: > Are there more recommendations regarding this sort of stuff? Like a > 'best buy' guide for secure hardware, or ways to work around insecure > hardware. Take a look at http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw -- With respect, Roman signature.asc

Re: [tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-08-29 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:55 AM, blaatenator wrote: > Hi all, > Hi, > There was a mention of a 'sort of' open source smart card product and a > certain type of laptop brand (but I didn't catch the names unfortunately). > Are there more recommendations regarding this sort of stuff? Like a > 'b

[tor-talk] hardware recommendations

2015-08-29 Thread blaatenator
Hi all, The talk of Jacob at DebConf (especially the Citizen Four Q&A) got me thinking about hardware. I know that hardware rng's are suspect, and probably AES cpu extensions as well. And if Lenovo openly puts stuff in the BIOS, who knows what else might be in there. Also someone there mentioned A