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deweytoday at 2:40 AM1 replyview on HN

You can’t verify that even on an open OS as there will still be closed hardware blobs. At least with popular systems there’s a lot of state level hacking activity so zero days get patched routinely. Also Apple has a program for researchers where they get more access to the system (That program was criticized heavily though for the way it was implemented).

It’s not a perfect system so right now you still have to trust someone at some point in the chain.


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j_maffetoday at 6:36 AM

> At least with popular systems there’s a lot of state level hacking activity so zero days get patched routinely

Not sure how you're implying one leads to the other.