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SecurityFocus: Closed Source Hardware

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“Trust is an important part of security. When it comes to
trusting hardware vendors, it seems that this road is all too often
a one way street.

“Whether it’s FreeBSD on my personal laptop and desktop, OpenBSD
on my firewall, NetBSD on an old Turbo-Channel DECStation box, or
even Mandrake Linux in the office, for security I avoid closed
source operating systems as best I can…”

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