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This, who's going to invest the substantial sum required to manufacturing opensource chips at economical scale?
National security states won't make it easy even if there were groups with enough resources to do it... a lot of people will fall out of windows or at least find themselves indicted over a parking ticket if they try undermining the ability to track everyone everywhere all the time.
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Some of the rockchip SoCs are open source. I've tested a couple including compiling the firmware, and it's not too bad.
But I frankly have no idea how to test it for backdoors. Could be a honeypot.
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If anyone can do it'd be a state-industry like China trying to soften the market while giving themselves options outside of US/CIAwan chips, but yea I'm sure there are plenty of asterisks... and opensource design is only one part in the manufacturing the physical thing
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Idealists: open source all the things
NSA enters the chat
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