San Francisco-based Design Shift has taken to crowd-funding service Kickstarter to take orders for what it claims is the world’s first open source, physically secure computer.
A compact, disc-shaped device based on Intel’s latest Skylake family of x86-64 processors, ORWL’s primary selling point is a focus on security. A wireless dongle is provided with every system, which contains a unique key paired with one on the system itself. When the key is out of range, the system locks down: the processor is put into sleep mode and all USB and HDMI ports are disabled until the key is returned.
To protect against physical attacks on a locked machine, each ORWL is built using what the company describes as an “active mesh shell casing,” the surfaces of which are covered in…