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Why is it controversial to point that the seed signer by using a raspberry pi is running on top of a GPU binary blob from Broadcom?

- gpu loads the firmware

- gpu then turns on the ARM core

- arm core loads the kernel

Without the proprietary firmware the Raspberry Pi can’t boot. Am I wrong here?

Why does pointing that out makes me a paid shill of the hardware wallet cartel?
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Hazey 1y ago

Because that binary blob is not open source and serves as a root kit. WikiLeaks revealed in 2013 that those binary blobs are patched by the CIA during manufacture, with a list of all the affected products. Broadcom is one of the common denominators

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iru@localhot $_ 1y ago

Thats big if true. Do you have a source on the Wikileaks page?