Are you for or against computers being created using all open source components, removing the issue of remote access via embedded backdoors?

I could definitely use one of those in my toolbox. I could see using it to troubleshoot problems on other machines.

SGT (Join to see) To answer the question, yes I would be for a completely open sourced computer. With one caveat, they do not fall into the same trap that other open source projects do. THeir manuals and documentation are less than desired. Most of the manuals you find for open source hardware and software assume some sort of prior knowledge. Until they break things down "Barney Style" so the average abuser, ahem I mean user, can use and understand the documentation. Open source will never gain the traxtion it wants with the masses.

In the military (and government as a whole), I am for Open Source when we have an effective initial training and subsequent sustainment training in place. We already have a problem with reliance upon contractors because our Soldiers don't train on their systems enough (when we go to the field, we end up providing a service rather than training...)
The two main reasons we don't use OS software are:
1) familiarity - our users want to use what they use at home, so do the majority of the admins - we can combat this by implementation, training and repetition
2) support - we require enterprise level support in the form of short response time and a timely remediation to vulnerabilities (not always successful, look at Flash) - we can combat this with active communities of interest, think Asterisk forums.

It would be a hard sell though.

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I could definitely get onboard with an idea like this. As SSgt Mark Lines stated, I could also see using remote access to troubleshoot other machines. In fact in my job I DO use remote access. I would be all for some type of user-created remote access tool rather than a built-in (and therefore backdoor) utility.