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libreboot not supporting post-2008 Intel hardware?



Got this from some forum.

https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel
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Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? #intel

It is extremely unlikely that any post-2008 Intel hardware will ever be
supported in libreboot, due to severe security and freedom issues; so
severe, that the libreboot project recommends avoiding all modern Intel
hardware.
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There are similar concerns about AMD from Joanna Rutkowska:

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
pp 44-45

Is there safe off the shelve hardware and sufficiently powerful?
(Don't think android is an option)

This is not intended as flamewar Intel vs AMD vs whatever.