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AMD Going Open Boot?

posted by chromas on Monday September 02 2019, @12:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the knock-me-over-with-a-feather dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Michael Larabel over at Phoronix got his journalism on to produce this interesting story:

We were tipped off today that AMD's Head of Platform Firmware, Edward Benyukhis, publicly posted on LinkedIn that he is "looking to hire someone with solid Coreboot and UEFI background." If you have Coreboot experience or know someone who is, see LinkedIn for contacting Benyukhis.

Oh, and they're also one of the sponsors for the Open-Source Firmware Conference next week. Does this mean I may actually get to use a computer that isn't about to hit a decade old and without a functional hardware rootkit sometime soon?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:46PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:46PM (#888991)

    Do you really think the NSA wants to watch your porn that badly?

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday September 02 2019, @10:00PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday September 02 2019, @10:00PM (#888993) Homepage Journal

    I dunno about his but mine's top shelf stuff.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday September 02 2019, @10:25PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Monday September 02 2019, @10:25PM (#889004)

    Do you really think the NSA wants to watch your porn that badly?

    In case you haven't noticed, the internet is going through an ol' school high-seas piracy age with government contractors on all sides buccaneering for profits and lolz and we're all just one leak [arstechnica.com] away from being exposed to their random ransomware worms.

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday September 02 2019, @10:33PM (1 child)

    by Immerman (3985) on Monday September 02 2019, @10:33PM (#889005)

    Maybe not, but I suspect that they're extremely interested in keeping detailed tabs on everyone in order to spot the 1-in-10,000 individuals that might eventually threaten to bring some democracy to our government. And frankly, I want as many such individuals as possible to slip under the radar until they have a chance to do some good.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @07:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @07:47PM (#889269)

      That's hate speech.
      Why would you want anything different than what has been already planned for you and everyone else?
      Do you think you know better than the cultural experts with degrees in Kweer Studees?