Eugen Leitl: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:59:42AM -0700, Blibbet wrote: > >> BTW, UEFI-based systems have a full IPv4/IPV6 network stack, with >> PXE remote boot and WS-Management remote admin/control, and tools >> like Perl and Telnet baked-in, so make sure your firmware isn't >> spewing packets before Linux and Tor loads. :-) > > We need more open hardware with less proprietary crap and > nonobvious backdoors (IPMI, Intel AMT, UEFI, etc). > > So if you're buying hardware for your Tor node, look > into coreboot support first http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards > > Eventually, we will have completely open hardware we can trust. > But that day is not here yet. Meanwhile, let's minimize the amount > of evil in the system.
This is the most sensible course of action for now. Change can only come slowly. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
