Where a good chunk of the cell phone market resides?
And if it is
turned on, can I control the keys on my device and thereby ensure that no
signature from Microsoft exists so I can properly block any installation of
Microsoft software on my computer?
Now there's a computer situation I
find attractice:
Vendors must sign their software.
The owner
of the computer has the power to control what signatures are allowed.
I
love it: the means at your fingertips to completely boycott a given company at
the touch of a button. Now there's consumer power.
And therein lies my
biggest problem with UEFI:
The control of the keys on a computer I own would
lie with someone else, not me.
At the moment, I control what software is
installed. With UEFI enabled* in it's current state, I loose that
control.
That's probably the biggest reason most of FLOSS is against
Microsofts version of UEFI: in it's current state, it removes power over the
device that the owner previously had.
*: It is a beneficial concept if
the owner of the device has control over the security.
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