> being able to trust that your device is truly yours
Yeah, this is essentially impossible today. Even personal computers have processors with potentially malicious firmware. In order to get a trustworthy processor to run free software on, we need to limit ourselves to hardware from decades ago.
It's gotten to the point I don't we can trust any computer we haven't fabricated ourselves. Anyone can download a compiler and make their own software but hardware requires billions of dollars worth of equipment and personnel. Software freedom is doomed unless we somehow develop a way to fabricate chips at home.
Yeah, this is essentially impossible today. Even personal computers have processors with potentially malicious firmware. In order to get a trustworthy processor to run free software on, we need to limit ourselves to hardware from decades ago.
It's gotten to the point I don't we can trust any computer we haven't fabricated ourselves. Anyone can download a compiler and make their own software but hardware requires billions of dollars worth of equipment and personnel. Software freedom is doomed unless we somehow develop a way to fabricate chips at home.