[Arm-netbook] ARM's OOB para-virtualization & FreeZone in A10?

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Thu Jul 5 13:49:07 BST 2012


On 07/05/2012 01:28 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:57 AM, nil<namespace_collision at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> because the questions were ill-founded. Apophenia and paranoia, however useful
>> they might be in one's own circumstances, are liabilities in the design of
>> secure systems.
>
>   nil: you're out of line.  this individual is experiencing *direct*
> attacks against a wide range of hardware: every system they've
> purchased so far has been compromised by extremely sophisticated and
> knowledgeable hardware-level illegal hacking.  it is not theoretical
> for them: it is a day-to-day reality. they are therefore seeking a
> hardware system which is inviolate against hardware-based low-level
> attacks.
>
>   as they have such direct experience with ongoing attacks that could
> be useful for the freedombox team to learn from i've raised the issue
> with james vasile because i feel it's highly inappropriate that the
> freedombox foundation should "stick its fingers in users' ears" on the
> users' behalf.

Isn't Freedombox supposed to be essentially based on a SheevaPlug? If 
there is network based OOB available on that I would dearly love to know 
- that'd be an immensely useful feature. I'd certainly pay extra for 
that. :)

Gordan



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