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Nah, if I manufactured my own silicon, I'd be infinitely more hackable than I am right now - just like if I wrote my own crypto code. 99.9999% of people are going to be more secure if they just rely on publicly accessible cryptography (and silicon). Otherwise you're just going to be making stupid mistakes that real cryptographers and security folks found and wrote defenses against three decades ago.


If you could make your own silicon, you could create a guild or a federation to audit it, and then your trust circle would be smaller and therefore safer.

>Otherwise you're just going to be making stupid mistakes that real cryptographers and security folks found and wrote defenses against three decades ago.

Yeah, thats the point, learn those same techniques, get it in the guild, and watch each others backs.

Rather than just 'trusting' some faceless war profiteers from the midst of an out of control military-industrial complex.




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