[Replicant] [PATCH v2][ 07/11] freedom-privacy-security-issues: Improve hardware freedom state description

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli GNUtoo at no-log.org
Mon Mar 28 18:50:27 UTC 2016


Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at no-log.org>
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 freedom-privacy-security-issues.php | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php b/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
index d218230..5332b8b 100644
--- a/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
+++ b/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
@@ -44,10 +44,12 @@
 			<h3>The current situation of freedom and privacy/security on mobile devices</h3>
 			<p>
 				A mobile device respecting the users' freedom would have:<ul><li>Free hardware</li><li>Free firmwares</li><li>Free modem system</li><li>Free bootrom and bootloader</li><li>Free system and applications</li></ul>Regarding <a href="#free-hardware">free hardware</a>, it barely exist as of today.
-				Modifying hardware is nearly impossible: new versions of the hardware have to be produced, and those are expensive.
+				The ways of modifying existing hardware are very limited.
+				Because of that, new versions of the hardware have to be produced to carry the modifications, and this is expensive.
 				While producing printed circuit boards (PCBs) costs a lot of money, producing integrated circuits is out of reach.
-				A few devices come with schematics for the PCB, but that's usually as far as it gets.
+				A few devices come with schematics, or full design files for the PCB, but that's usually as far as it gets.
 				Hence, totally-free hardware doesn't exist yet.
+				While design for FPGAs do exist in free software licenses, FPGAs are not practical enough to be used to replace ASICs in smartphones, and most of them even proprietary software tools.
 			</p>
 			<p>
 				Firmwares running inside integrated circuits are most of the time proprietary.
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