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You trust that CPU doing the build? Have you heard about the mess Intel Management Engine is?

Unless you build from the transistors up you have incoherent security theater.

hold on, which universe did you source your matter from?

Here's a tutorial if you want to actually do this, although it's worth pointing out that quality is heavily dependent on how much you're willing to shell out for equipment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1MCi7FliVY

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

Nothing old silicon and analog peripherals can't solve.

Indeed, in the end it all comes down to trust. One of my favourite HN comments of all time is this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33899478

If you want to be 'really' secure, you can trust noone. No silicon, no software, no compilers, no certificates, no power grids, no networks, no friends, no coworkers, no nothing.

But that is no life I'd want to live. So I pick my battles and make sure my SecOps is better than 99.9% of the people out there. For me that suffices. YMMV.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...