[Arm-netbook] another crowdsupply project - ORWL

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis at tinet.cat> wrote:
> El Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:43:17AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia:
>> https://www.crowdsupply.com/design-shift/orwl
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>> looks totally cool
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> Do you mean the aesthetics ?

 no the idea of protecting the inside from tampering, with special
casework that has micro-circuit tracks in it.

> It's an Intel CPU. You get ME, SMM, signed boot under Intel control, etc.
> They even have a section "Why Intel? Isn’t x86 Considered Harmful?"
> which basically says: "yes, it's harmful, but everybody uses it and there's
> nothing else we can do".
> And the "open source" section basically says "as open source as we can".
> The microcontroller specialised in security does not have public datasheets.

 yehh and i talked this over with someone and they said, "can we trust
the SSD firmware?"

 i answered, "probably not... but we did learn i believe a few years
ago that the A20 can do client-side SATA, so it *might* be possible to
make an SSD out of it... :) "

l.