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Earlier posts around the same topic: http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/12/23&#x…

People have certainly done ME reverse engineering: http://me.bios.io/

There are plenty of boards that run using mainline u-boot and mainline Linux, you can often ignore the vendor BSP. You are right about ARM though, TrustZone is another DRM-oriented aspect of ARM-based…

and some of those are working on physical chip production: http://www.lowrisc.org/

Requires purchase of a cerficate from one of the authorities Microsoft recognises (Verisign/Digicert/...) and then the signature of Microsoft on compiled bootloader code. Either way, you hav…

Think of those fields as secondary password fields and act accordingly. Diceware can also be useful for when they need to be spoken on the phone. With the right amount of words (7 or more) it has reas…

Respecting his request would mean removing xscreensaver which would be bad for users.

If you want a specific bug fixed in stable, there are avenues to doing that: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs... …

> only security issues ... will be processed That isn't actually the policy, for example: https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160402 …

There are strict guidelines, but generally it is possible to obtain an experimental license for specific events/situations.

Yes, the issue with the Apple store was about the ToS.

Why not put the code open source? It’s basically a kind of paranoia or prudence about what might happen...

> (i.e. just about everything outside of my house) Which ISP do you use? I would be surprised if a trustworthy ISP exists.

Does LibreBoot have the lawyers to enforce compliance with the GPL? As we have seen with Linux/busybox/etc, the GPL is not magic pixie dust and is close to useless without lawyers to back it…

That is quite a bit different from Cygwin. Running the Linux kernel on Windows has been done before IIRC - coLinux?