Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platforms (2016)
... I confess I&#x27;m very frustrated reading about how trusted computing modules hurt the cause of FOSS but no alternatives to actually try and carry out cryptography to execute trusted code.<p>Inevitably the complaint is, &quot;Well if they have physical access you&#x27;re screwed anyways.&quot; And I just don&#x27;t understand how <i>anyone</i> can maintain that farce when the last year has shown that it&#x27;s a genuine challenge even for the US FBI to unlock a mobile device without the owners say-so and it&#x27;s getting harder all the time.<p>If you truly believe that physical access is a trump of any security then you can never trust your hardware anyways, as it is exceptionaly hard to prove it conforms to a spec.