Writing about open hardware.

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@@ -161,7 +161,40 @@ and potentially worrying development, particularly with the clear
 level influence, interest, and competitiveness both the US {US House
 chip manufacturing bill} and Chinese governments (cite) are
 respectively showing (the US and China are the two largest chip
-manufacturers (cite, reword)).
+manufacturers (cite, reword)). In light of potential issues with
+hardware in a privacy sense, there have been developments in `open
+hardware'. RISC V is an instruction set for processors, that, opposed
+to ARM, Intel, and AMD which are developed in secret, RISC V is an open
+standard originating from the University of California, Berkeley (UC
+Berkeley). This therefore allows for open source CPU designs, such as
+those designed at UC Berkeley, as well as those from other parties,
+such as Alibaba Group (cite all). A significant amount of existing
+software has been ported to the RISC V platform (cite) and been
+implemented commercially by companies such as Google, for a security
+module in the `Pixel 6' smartphone (cite). This attention and interest
+in the technology potentially indicates a shift in attitude and want
+for more open hardware and a general concern for the source of
+computing equipment. Examples, such as a laptop created by the
+manufacturer Frame Work Inc which aims to be more expandable,
+serviceable and repairable then existing laptops, gaining significant
+media coverage (cite) further show an interest from the public in open
+hardware. An argument can be made that such projects are for niche
+interest groups only, and that such solutions will never see the
+commercial success seen by the larger, non-open manufacturers such as
+Intel and ARM, however clear adoption of standards such as RISC V by
+large institutions (cite) as well as the clear interest the public
+have demonstrated in commercially available open solutions (research,
+cite) demonstrate quite the opposite: that open hardware will continue
+to become increasingly prevalent and that currently popular hardware
+with its susceptibility to surveillance will possibly start to
+disappear. 
+
+A shift toward open standards reveals a problem for law enforcement
+agencies and counterterrorism forces. The tools of mass surveillance
+that once enabled investigation into crime or terror such as reading
+messages/emails, listening to calls, tracking location, or analysing
+metadata (cite?) may no longer be effective, thereby potentially
+preventing such investigation to occur.
 
 In addition, the rate of development in unconventional computing
 methods is increasing rapidly. Effective quantum computing will
@@ -179,7 +212,7 @@ future the breakdown of current cryptographic methods.
 Indeed, there
 have already been claims (although disputed) to quantum supremacy from
 
-Once more, the significant research is occuring as afformentioned in
+Once more, the significant research is occurring as aforementioned in
 the US and in China {quantum research in china}. Both in the US at
 Google {google supremacy nature} and in China {china quantum
 advantage}{science photons quantum advantage}. 
@@ -297,4 +330,6 @@ Surveillance
     https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/us/politics/cia-data-privacy.html
     https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/we-need-answers-about-cias-mass-surveillance
 
+crowd supply boosts open hardware: linux magazine
+
 {firewall}