Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance
While I find this post and the ideas presented very interesting on the technical level, work in that direction ("remote attestation", making devices "tamper-proof") tends to give me a dystopian vibe - foreshadowing a world where there's no hardware left you can hack, build and flash your own firmware onto: Complete tivoization, to re-use lingo from when the GPLv3 was drafted. With that, really neutering all the benefits Free Software provides.What good is having all the source code in the world if I can never put my (or anyone else's) modifications to it into effect?