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2012: "Secure boot is a plot by Microsoft to kill Linux"2025: EA'…
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@mjg59 Conspiracy theory aside, never underestimate MICROS~1's ability to b…
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@jwz @mjg59 SULFNBK to the rescue!
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@mjg59 the more funny part is that secure boot doesn't even accomplish what…
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@agowa338 @mjg59 adding your own keys only ended up there because microsoft got…
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@etchedpixels @mjg59 yup, but we're talking about EA anti-cheat requiring i…
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@agowa338 @mjg59 so EA gets to check who signed the keys
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@etchedpixels @mjg59 They cannot, as many mainboard vendors enrol their own key…
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@etchedpixels @mjg59 Oh and it's not just the Mainboard vendor, Network car…
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@mjg59 "Secure" (restricted) boot = Your computer will only boot thin…
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@Miner34 ? This is demonstrably not true
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@[email protected] Did they asked users to disable MS 3rd Party U…
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@Orca seems unlikely, but that's probably what's happened to a bunch of…
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@mjg59 @usul I told my brother after we succeeded getting both his gaming PC BI…
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@mjg59 @usul I did see however that there was a stupid incompatibility some peo…
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@mjg59 I find the people who credit MS with brilliant Machiavellian plots are a…
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@aardvark179 @mjg59 Less “they contain multitudes” and more “I am legion,…
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@mjg59 "It's a plot to kill Linux" was always nonsense."It&#…
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@dalias "Secure boot is an advert for Linux" is something I'm hap…
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@mjg59 I do not play games. I do not use Windows.
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@mjg59 UEFI secure boot: about as unnecessarily complex as most of UEFI itself
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@mjg59 It's not that either. It's just a gigantic attack on the concept…
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@mjg59 good news! They’re incredibly incompetent at all they do.
Post #AxD2DYMgLJIGm6Ixwu by [email protected]
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@mjg59 I don't play games with that garbage.
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@mjg59 - Sometimes I miss gaming and then I see stuff like this. Back to Rogue-…
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@aardvark179 @mjg59 TBF Microsoft are also pretty huge!
Post #AxD4kPZ0HoZgwVrcp6 by [email protected]
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CassandrichCassandrich wrote:It's not that either. It's just a gigantic…
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@mjg59 Breaking: Microsoft's response? "Hold my beer"
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@mjg59 Microsoft certainly did have plots to kill Linux at various times, peaki…
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@alison @mjg59 Given that Hotmail ran on FreeBSD, that story seems somewhat imp…
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@david_chisnall @mjg59 I have no insider information: that's just what my f…
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@mjg59 If I planned on using custom secure boot keys, I would allowlist the opt…
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@alwayscurious that's fine as long as you never need to use the graphical s…
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@mjg59 Which is a reasonable assumption for a passed-through secondary GPU. (P…
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@alwayscurious Ah, most interfaces don't provide a simple way to allowlist …
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@mjg59 Is there any other way to get secure boot without trusting Microsoft key…
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@mjg59 Asking because for Spectrum OS it would be nice to make this work, but b…
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@alwayscurious In *theory* there's nothing stopping vendors from signing th…
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@mjg59 If one is enrolling a custom key can one sign the option ROMs oneself?
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@mjg59 Also, do iGPUs have option ROMs or is that handled some other way?
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