Bullshit Kickstarter: "World's First Patented Unhackable Computer Ever" - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Cthulhoid
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 27, 2019, 11:38:52 pm
content: Sohere ya go.Their patent actually exists (US10061923B1), which isn't terribly surprising given what USPTO will let through.To the extent this project isn't total handwavy scam, it was patented either by NSA in 2001 (US6922774B2) or by IBM in the early 1980s or before (a ton).

author: GregDunn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 01:31:04 am
content: And the picture is a MacBook. Well, at least he knows where to start!

author: TK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 01:37:17 am
content: He will design and manufacture the hardware and a software engineer will work on the OS

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 01:39:13 am
content: Reading the patent summary all I see is that it has NO external I/O. ALL computers used to be that way so it's hardly a new idea.Now wheredidI put that Radio Shack Color Computer?

author: Berni
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 05:07:36 am
content: So according to those patents he plans to reinvent sandboxing or virtual machines for software separation and SIM cards for hardware separation?

author: Ysjoelfir
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 06:21:20 am
content: "I was repeatedly a victim of hackers." - You just showed why I wouldn't trust a "unhackable" product you designed.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 13, 2019, 04:13:03 am
content: "I have a degree in Electronic Hardware from UCLA and over 35 years of experience in Systems Architecture, Large Integrated Software Systems and some Hardware in various computers, Internet, Operating Systems, BIOS, Device Drivers, Embedded Systems, etc. "It kind of reads like this scene from the IT Crowd:

author: rawrs
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2019, 05:10:50 am
content: "Unhackable" is such a vague, nebulous, weasel wordy term, I'm surprised I don't need a nebuliser to inhale it. So much of this shit sounds like Comp Sci III that I don't know where to begin. And I'm sure, neither do they.Unhackable from what perspective? Software, hardware, internet, certain protocols, are the important bits armoured in gold like SIM cards, what? I really don't get it.Nothing is unhackable. Nothing can 100% perfectly stand up to human curiosity, insight, and intellect. We live in an imperfect universe, and we are imperfect beings. How can an imperfect being make a perfect anything? It might take a few more significant digits to find imperfections, but they're still going to be there.P.S. oh my god, that music is so goddamn grating on my nerves, that I'm going to go carve "me has smart braneing" into my marble countertop with my teeth to make me feel better.

author: Nominal Animal
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2019, 06:59:22 am
content: Only inert things are unhackable. If it reacts to input, it is hackable.

author: TK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2019, 11:46:36 am
content: As Ken Thompson said (The creator of Unix and co-creator of the C programming language):QuoteReflections on Trusting Trust:https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2019, 12:44:39 pm
content: Quote from: TK on July 13, 2019, 11:46:36 amT,FTFY

author: TheAmmoniacal
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 13, 2019, 01:01:43 pm
content: TempleOS is unhackable without physical access.

author: Wimberleytech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2019, 02:57:50 am
content: Quote from: Cthulhoid on June 27, 2019, 11:38:52 pmIt is a patent application, not a granted patent.