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Do ssd/hdd drives with open source firmware exist?

• joshavant 12y ago
  Sorry, not an answer to your question, but I did think about this while reading the article, and these new findings do seem to make Richard Stallman's 'entirely free and open laptop' efforts seem not so crazy, after all.
  • lifeisstillgood 12y ago
    No one thinks the rationale for the free and open laptop is crazy. Just the cost and capability. That said, right now there is not a single hardware manufacturer in the world who is not open to government pressure. Perhaps the only answer to all this is to make our institutions irrevocably open - that there are open publicised hardware standards and means of verifying the circuits are the design expected.
• kbart 12y ago
  No. A modern device (PC, tablet, phone) is full of firmware/binary blobs: graphic accelerator, WiFi/Bluetooth module etc. There's a small Open Source Hardware movement (http://www.oshwa.org/definition/ http://www.oshwa.org/definition/), but it's nowhere near it's software counterpart. I hope such revelations will help to get it moving.
• roel_v 12y ago
  How would that help against these attacks?