On 12/10/2018 05:54 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:33:10 -0500, taii...@gmx.com wrote: >> >>>> Not sure which country would be a reliable location though, I >>>> wouldn't trust Western European countries either. >>> USA is currently the best option since there have never been proven >>> backdoors in made in usa hardware but plenty in chinese made hardware >>> such as the recent motherboard hack chip scandal. >> So that proves that US manufacturers are better at hiding their back >> doors? >> >> Or is it a numbers game, there are a hell of a lot more systems made in >> China, so the chances of a backdoor being discovered is higher. >> >> Either way, lack of evidence of insecurity is not proof of security. >>
So tell us what is your perfect country for hardware manufacturing? Name one other country on earth besides america where you can say no to a governmental request for a backdoor in your hardware or software products and not end up in prison. In the mean time will you continue to buy chinese products with proven backdoors since getting that is somehow better than something that is only almost perfect? The amd bulldozer and piledriver CPU's like the FX-8350 and its opteron counterparts are made in germany (the packaging is done in china but at that point afaik there isn't much that can be done to fuck with it) but that still wouldn't satisfy you since germany doesn't have anything like the constitution - they have no freedom of speech. The future of freedom computing is OpenPOWER and RISC-V since they are the only owner controlled archs that have real performance and features, in other words they have juice.
