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

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Ahem.
> /me will avoid from further responding to this thread. There has been enough off-topic nonsense in it as-is. Though Gordan is not to blame for the bulk of it.

Tzafrir Cohen and Attila Asztalos could you please refrain from
criticism? I am not going to retaliate by criticizing you. I do find it
hypocritical that people into open source software are into open source
hardware. I erroneously assumed that every Linux user was like Richard
Stallman, founder of GPU and advocate of both open source software and
hardware. I erroneously assumed that other Linux users were taking
Richard Stallman's advice to own a Lemote Yeeloong netbook or some other
open source hardware. After three weeks of searching, I don't think
there is other truly open source hardware.

Regardless of my needs for it, I am shocked none of you are supporting
Richard Stallman's advocacy of truly open source hardware. 

I started my search for open source hardware because one of the computer
security expert who conducted forensics recommended a raspberry pi
because it does not have a BIOS and HPA. He discovered a firmware
rootkit in the HPA of my hard drive and graphic card and extracted it's
encrypted code. I asked him to email the code to me to reply to Gordon's
request for code. He said my processor's timing is off and my BIOS is
not the factory version and does not check for authentication.  The
other computer security expert who conducted forensics of my infected
files recommended UEFI. Raspberry pi, the first ARM device I researched
uses Broadcom which is not open source hardware and has TrustZone. I
ordered a Lemote Yeeloong with a 8 SSD instead of the 160 GB HD as SSD
does not have a HPA. Though I do need more storage than 8 GB and today
am purchasing a 32 GB SD card.

UEFI and Microsoft 8 will preclude installing Linux. Apple precludes
installing Linux. That alone should cause Linux users to search for or
create open source hardware. ARM and MIPS hardware, with the exception
of Lemote, are not truly open source. Linux is much more complicated to
install then simply downloading an ISO and burning it to a  DVD.  I
predict Microsoft and Apple will prevail. There will fewer newbie Linux
users. Being a semi-newbie Linux user, I find the tutorials on
installing Linux on ARM and MIPS too complicated and too few SDcards
preinstalled with Linux for sale. If I were not desperate, I would not
even try.

Gordon Bobic, I appreciate your giving more advice on AV and using AV in
Firefox and Thunderbird. Yet, all of you are ignoring that AV does not
scan BIOS, HPA of hard drives and graphic cards. I need to read articles
on fingerprinting to ascertain whether having numerous plugins and
addons in Firefox will enable crackers from fingerprinting my browser.
Also, if the AV add-on for Firefox connects to the AV's IP address every
time I use the browser, that would be leaving a paper trail. Much to
research, to learn, to apply and little time.



 




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