[coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

[Taiidan at gmx.com]

On 12/23/2017 04:08 PM, Ivan Ivanov wrote:

> Sadly the ARM processor also have the ME-like backdoor (called "TrustZone).
> And even MIPS is going this road soon (check out the "MIPS OmniShield" news).
>
> Could it be the requirement of US Government - for all the consumer
> CPU to have backdoors ?
> My last hopes are on POWER 9 and RISC V now ; meanwhile sticking to
> the AMD pre-PSP tech
I believe that "the No Such Agency did it" is too easy - I doubt they 
would be able to keep something that big under wraps for long 
considering how incompetent they are when it comes to security.

My bets are on some type of private actor who wants industrial espionage 
on steroids - blackmailing or bribing key people who work for intel/amd 
to make it seem like ME/PSP is a good idea.
Imagine all the money you could make with that kind of access!