You say:
Perhaps they'll just add a "You have to add this
certificate to your UEFI trusted store before you can see this hillarious cat
video" clickbox to their malware, and *poof* there goes the
protection.
And I say:
And conditioning users for that has
already begun via the smartphone and apps that apparently need full access to
the phone including your contact information in order that you can play
tetris.
The irony: the proprietary vendors that want to be able to have
absolute freedom with what to do with information they collect about you -
including how to go about collecting it - is ultimately the biggest reason why
the process will fail.
The bottom line being: malware is a term used to
define software on your computational device that does something you don't want
it to do. Is there really any difference between a rootkit created by someone
to harvest keystrokes (virus authors) and a rootkit created by someone to
harvest keystrokes (Sony BMG, Carrier IQ)? Logically - exactly how
computational devices function - they are identical!
To allow one -
Carrier IQ - is to inherently allow the other - virus author.
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