🚨TODAY: Vitalik Buterin calls for trustworthy hardware and stronger privacy protections at Devcon 8: “Not your silicon, not your life.” “We really need to treat data as toxic waste by default.” Opening the conference, Buterin framed security around one question: whom do we trust with our devices, health data, communications and AI? “We need to be able to trust our hardware.” He called for open-source code, inspectable hardware, formal verification and cryptographic proofs to reduce reliance on blind trust in companies or influencers. He explains how Ethereum’s mission extends beyond finance to technology people can independently verify and safely use.