Chinese hackers design the world's first open-source notebook of hardware

Chinese hackers designed the world's first source of hardware Open-source notebooks Xinguo, an American-renowned Chinese hardware hacker (Andrew Huang, nicknamed Bunnie), partnered with people to create a laptop computer using open source hardware. All parameters of the notebook's main hardware are public. You might ask, is hardware necessary to open source? Do you really think your laptop is safe in a time when surveillance is ubiquitous in the U.S. National Security Service and other agencies or organizations? Is every part of it safe and airtight? It sounds like these questions seem a bit paranoid, but based on the fact that Snowden is telling us, it's good to be paranoid too. At ordinary times we are concerned about software security more, before long ago Mozilla also called on software engineers around the world to review the Firefox code, to prevent the U.S. Security Bureau to tamper with it. Similarly, when it comes to open source Linux, everyone will feel secure because countless eyes are staring at its code. But what about the hardware in your laptop? Do you know what the small integrated circuits on the motherboard are doing? Or do you know what the firmware for the control board and other underlying devices is doing? These firmware are not open source, once the problem, others can not help you. This is one reason why Xinguo and his partners started the Novena project to build their own hardware open source laptops. Another reason is that they "want to learn new knowledge by making things that can be used every day." They are in the spirit of sharing, the hardware parameters and fuselage design posted online, enthusiasts can build their own notebook computer. Xinguo can be said to be a celebrity on the internet, the hardware hacker has taught others on the internet how to turn the Xbox from a home video game into a high-performance computer, designed in the United States Rage network equipment Chumby, recently also found and published the SD card security risks. He shared a hardware company headquartered in Singapore called the Bunny Studio. Xinguo introduced that the notebook's motherboard, battery board and display adapter board is a whole version of the design, the shell consists of several components, can be produced by 3D printing technology. The laptop features a moderate performance and portability and uses 4G RAM and ARM processors to power the average netbook. The lack of modern sense of the notebook is made up by its transparency. If you are not comfortable with the hardware, you can always check whether someone else left the back door. And Apple's MacBook Air ratio, this DIY notebook is neither beautiful nor performance, but it gives you what Apple may never give you, that is, the full control of their own machines.