Radical Stewardship

The only way to guarantee that a system is immune to hacking and malware
is to design it very simply—and build it yourself.

The Dauug House

We design radically open, transparently functioning computer architectures as a global public benefit. We publish our designs for everyone’s use, free of charge.

For forty years, America’s adversaries have exploited the complexity hidden inside microprocessors. Dauug computers contain no microprocessors, no complex silicon of any kind. Their logical behavior is fully visible, fully inspectable, and fully controlled by whoever builds them—not by us, not by a semiconductor company, not by a foreign government.

We sell nothing. We manufacture nothing. We exist to put this technology on the public record, permanently and without restriction, for critical infrastructure and the protection of fundamental human rights.

Open Hardware Is Not Enough

“Open hardware” traditionally refers to publishing design files—schematics, bills of material, Gerber files. In contrast, “radically open” requires further that all components function transparently. Radically open designs cannot tolerate chips that are complex enough to conceal exploitable defects.

Microprocessors, FPGAs, PLDs, ASICs, and DRAM (which we call “complex VLSI”) are unsuitable for radically open architectures, even though they constitute substantially all of today’s supposedly open hardware projects. Dauug computers differ in that they contain no complex VLSI apart from owner-attached peripherals.