"The Baochip-1x developers claim that closed-source components are harmless as long as they act as 'wires' (Input = Output). Seriously?
We live in an era where people run Doom on a pregnancy test. Anyone who believes a SoC segment is 'too dumb' to spy is playing 2D chess on a 4D board. 🛡️
A chip doesn't need active data transformation to be a backdoor. It just needs enough compute power for a trigger or a side-channel attack. You can monitor the 'perimeter' all you want, but you won't see the hardware Trojans sleeping at the silicon level.
As long as silicon remains a black box, any exit strategy (BTC) is built on sand. Physics beats blind trust—every single time. Who here actually trusts 'semi-open' hardware?"
"The Baochip-1x developers claim that closed-source components are harmless as long as they act as 'wires' (Input = Output). Seriously?
We live in an era where people run Doom on a pregnancy test. Anyone who believes a SoC segment is 'too dumb' to spy is playing 2D chess on a 4D board. 🛡️
A chip doesn't need active data transformation to be a backdoor. It just needs enough compute power for a trigger or a side-channel attack. You can monitor the 'perimeter' all you want, but you won't see the hardware Trojans sleeping at the silicon level.
As long as silicon remains a black box, any exit strategy (BTC) is built on sand. Physics beats blind trust—every single time. Who here actually trusts 'semi-open' hardware?"