What if your cybersecurity strategy was, essentially, becoming ungovernable — but for hackers? And what if nation-states helped you do it? Legally? Mostly?
Your TPM isn't the bottom of the stack. Below it sits firmware, microcode, and hardware you can't audit. This article traces the full chain of trust on a modern PC — and where it actually ends.
A deep dive into the security primitives your CPU already offers and almost nobody uses — TPM2, Secure Boot, kernel lockdown, IOMMU, and IMA/EVM — with concrete implementation guidance for self-built Linux machines.
The Beyond Linux From Scratch phase is different from LFS in ways that aren't obvious until you're in it. LFS is a linear sequence — 86 packages, one after another, in a prescribed order, with a well-defined end state. BLFS is a much greater creative challenge.