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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, November 22 2012 @ 07:39 AM EST |
On the FSFE page there is a link to an article entitled
"'Secure Boot': Who
will control your next computer?". It is
a very good analyses of the problem.
In the end, it
summarizes FSFE's demands that before purchasing a
device,
buyers must be informed concisely about the
technical measures implemented in
this device, as well as
the specific usage restrictions and their consequences
for
the owner. They go on to add...
Furthermore, FSFE strongly
recommends to
exclusively purchase IT devices which grant their owners
full,
sole and permanent control over security subsystems
(e. g. signature-based
usage restrictions), in order to
maintain the ability to install arbitrary
software and
lastly to retain exclusive control over ones own
data.
It seems to me that it is pretty useless to
recommend
that users only buy computers they can have full control
over. The
consumer (me and you) may have no choice about
what is available in the market.
Microsoft imposes secure
boot via their "Windows 8 Hardware Certification
Requirements", so who is going to make such a platform?
In the first
article you linked to, "FSFE welcomes German
Government's White Paper on
'Secure Boot'", there is a
paragraph saying...
The white
paper says that "device owners must
be in complete control of (able to manage
and monitor) all
the trusted computing security systems of their devices."
This has been one of FSFE's key demands from the
beginning.
However, that specific "key demand" is not
mentioned in
the second article, "'Secure Boot': Who will control your
next
computer?".
In the end, it was a relief to read that device
owners must
be in complete control of their computer, even
if it unclear that the FSFE made
such a recommendation as
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 22 2012 @ 06:31 PM EST |
They'd also include Mobile Phones, Tablets, Game Machines, and any
other device which has an input/output system
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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