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Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300
(www.tomshardware.com)
this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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You mean you're assuming that it will come with a backdoor in the hardware? Will that matter if the bootloader is FOSS?
Like.... the Intel ME?? And no BIOS seems to allow the switch to disable it, even though that was literally required after the NSA sued Intel?
Coreboot disables most of Intel ME on x86 except the parts required for essential functions. It certainty cripples external access to Intel ME.
I believe it is a fair assumption that for embedded architectures like ARM and RISC-V, a FOSS bootloader will likely deal with state-sponsored backdoors if they haven't been infiltrated themselves. This does not take into account baseband attack vectors because I simply don't know much about wireless, but I'd imagine someone working on these projects likely has their eye on the funny stuff the NSA is likely to try here. RISC-V is FOSS, the NSA cannot legally require anybody to include a backdoor into the architecture itself.