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Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released

125 pointsby onosendaiover 12 years ago

7 comments

kunaiover 12 years ago
Doesn't matter if it's signed code. I still turned off Secure Boot on my T430. It is rare that I have ever gotten malware, much less any that execute code at boot. Boot-sector virii died off in the late 90s.<p>Make no doubt about it; this is just another monopolistic implementation of restrictive technology by Microsoft.
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sergiotapiaover 12 years ago
I'm not 100% sure what this means. I remember hearing a lot of rabble rabble a few months back about Microsoft placing some roadblocks on hardware that would make it more difficult to install Linux on machines.<p>Does this mean this is now a non-issue?<p>Thanks in advance.
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xuhuover 12 years ago
Meanwhile Ubuntu's Wubi-based installer is rendered useless since the Windows 8 bootloader won't load it (nor will it load anything except Windows apparently if SecureBoot is enabled).
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RexRollmanover 12 years ago
Great news but this entire situation is still a cluster-fuck.
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erhardmover 12 years ago
I don't feel safe at all. The same way goverments could ask Microsoft to have a builtin backdoor for Windows, they could ask for a signed rootkit.
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patrickaljordover 12 years ago
cache: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/linux-foundation-secure-boot-system-released/&#38;hl=en&#38;tbo=d&#38;strip=1" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...</a>
martincedover 12 years ago
Amazing. An article about "Secure Boot" and they transmit...<p>A MD5 of the file.<p>The nineties called, they want their MD5 back.
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