Is there any computer that's open source and libra from the ground up? Including boot firmware, power management and tuning in the CPU etc? If you're truly concerned about privacy and security you can't do any x86 or Arm based computer because there are no computer that will expose all the nooks and crannies for hardening or validation. But there are such computers. Raptor Computing https://www.raptorcs.com/ [raptorcs.com] are offering several POWER based models where every software part is open source, and even much of t
They take security pretty seriously, to the extent that you can buy a GPG key from them and install their version of Coreboot, which will then validate itself and check to see that none of the main OS files (kernel, initramfs, etc.) have been changed. The last I heard, they still have one blob from Intel in the firmware set that they haven't been able to get rid of (yet), but they're working towards it.
As for the OS, they publish PureOS, which is Debian-based with all of the non-free software pulled out.
So, unless you're facing Edward Snowden-level threats, it's pretty much as close to a secure, private environment as you're going to get.
What about hardware? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What about hardware? (Score:2)
The closest I think you're going to get to this is Purism: https://puri.sm/products/libre... [puri.sm]
They take security pretty seriously, to the extent that you can buy a GPG key from them and install their version of Coreboot, which will then validate itself and check to see that none of the main OS files (kernel, initramfs, etc.) have been changed. The last I heard, they still have one blob from Intel in the firmware set that they haven't been able to get rid of (yet), but they're working towards it.
As for the OS, they publish PureOS, which is Debian-based with all of the non-free software pulled out.
So, unless you're facing Edward Snowden-level threats, it's pretty much as close to a secure, private environment as you're going to get.