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News Pick Making UEFI Secure Boot Work With Open Platforms
Authored by: complex_number on Sunday, July 08 2012 @ 02:12 AM EDT
and if you did have the temerity to 'break' the MS keys the grief you would get
from the lawyers would make anything that Kim DotCom has seen pale into
insignificance.

This move by MS to lock down their hardware goes well beyond anything we have
seen so far except for perhaps Sony.

Sadly I see it as a model that a good number of other manufacturers will follow
if they see this being a success.

I am sure that the malware writers are already hard at work developing new toys
that will break this in a trice. MS despite the obvious financial reqards this
may bring should know that by locking the systems down like this they are
painting a huge target on their backs and letting the "bad guys" (sic)
take as many potshots as they like at it.

It might just possibly turn out that the malware writers might be doing us all a
favour if they go after this lockin.

The enemy of my enemy if my friend and all that...



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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?

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