Free 500 USD laptop proposal

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:39:09 +0100,
Paul Hänsch wrote:
> 
> Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl>, Sun 2014-11-23 23:06:
> > https://bryanquigley.com/uncategorized/would-you-crowdfund-a-500-ubunt
> > u-open-to-the-core-laptop
> 
> I don't get this point:
> 
> ""quote --
> - 128 GB SSD (this would be the one component that might have to be 
> proprietary as I’m not aware of another option)
> -- ""
> 
> Don't notebook SSDs appear as standerdised SATA disks these days? I've 
> never experienced any trouble with this class of device. Could imagine 
> that the internal ROM firmware is proprietary, but this should be the 
> case for a lot of the components (even when the loadable part of the 
> firmware is free).

Don't trust a hard drive to not modify the data in flight:

  http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=5

Neal