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Sounds like another attempt at monopoly. n/t
Authored by: jsoulejr on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 01:50 PM EDT
n/t

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  • Attempt? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 08:16 PM EDT
Secure Boot Question ...
Authored by: cassini2006 on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 02:00 PM EDT

As I understand it, Microsoft is going to use one private key to sign all copies of Windows 8, and then it is going to generate public keys for all of the manufacturer BIOSes. Probably, different public keys for each BIOS/machine revision from the major manufacturers. These manufacturers are then going to distribute somewhere between 100 million and a billion computers with Windows 8 on it.

No one is going to guess the private key?

If someone does guess the private key, then what? If new private keys are distributed, then the BIOS might refuse to boot existing operating systems. Also, malware authors could use the key distribution system as an attack vector.

How will this work for VMWare? Will VMWare have an operating system key too? If that is the case, then what is to stop anyone from virtualizing the O/S boot process, and creating the problem we are trying to solve?

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Off topic
Authored by: jvillain on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 02:43 PM EDT
After reading that I wanted to puke. I am wondering if that is the reason why my rawhide kernels no longer boot.

This is going to be extremely interesting though. No one wants windows 8. So when Microsoft has to back down and make copes of XP 7 available with an upgrade . How are they going to get it to boot? I guess they could sign a version of win 7. But what about the companies that have boat loads of win 7 licenses they are sitting on that they want to use on new hardware? My guess is this is going to end badly for both MS and the hardware companies that bent over and took it so they could have windows 8.

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FSF petition
Authored by: jvillain on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT
Just a reminder that the Free Software Foundation has a petition going on that people who are concerned about this should sign. FS F Petition

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