This looks great, and I applaud their efforts. The military typically has had a fleet of absolutely crappy Dell/HP laptops running equally crappy Windows software and all of it is in my view maintained and secured to set standards but just works like crap.
If this becomes available for personal use it's the HN dream with the focus (from what I can tell) on security, "zero trust", and presumably modularity. Presumably it'll work best with Linux too.
No reason to be suspicious any more than any other equipment you'd buy, well unless you're not also worried about Chinese backdoors on equipment manufacturers or other backdoors from other countries. Much rather trust the US obviously. (I'm not open to debate about this though others maybe be). Plus it looks like these would be built for the US military/government so backdoors would make sense and wouldn't be worried about aside from the general security concerns always espoused. But you're competing with crappy Dell laptops and stuff so the bar is already as low as it possible gets there.
Open hardware is great but someone has to build it and it has to be better. Most of the time it's way worse. I'm a little unsure about what these Zerotrust architecture claims are going to turn out to be:
Restored computer sovereignty begins with local supply chains of trusted domestic and allied partners, and extends to Zero Trust architecture.
Maybe even if the hardware (again there is very little of this) isn't open at least having some guardrails around the supply chain would be good.
This looks great, and I applaud their efforts. The military typically has had a fleet of absolutely crappy Dell/HP laptops running equally crappy Windows software and all of it is in my view maintained and secured to set standards but just works like crap.
If this becomes available for personal use it's the HN dream with the focus (from what I can tell) on security, "zero trust", and presumably modularity. Presumably it'll work best with Linux too.
Given the source, I would be very suspicious of backdoors by the US Mil/Gov't
Open hardware is the way to trusted security
No reason to be suspicious any more than any other equipment you'd buy, well unless you're not also worried about Chinese backdoors on equipment manufacturers or other backdoors from other countries. Much rather trust the US obviously. (I'm not open to debate about this though others maybe be). Plus it looks like these would be built for the US military/government so backdoors would make sense and wouldn't be worried about aside from the general security concerns always espoused. But you're competing with crappy Dell laptops and stuff so the bar is already as low as it possible gets there.
Open hardware is great but someone has to build it and it has to be better. Most of the time it's way worse. I'm a little unsure about what these Zerotrust architecture claims are going to turn out to be:
Maybe even if the hardware (again there is very little of this) isn't open at least having some guardrails around the supply chain would be good.