On 06/04/2012 07:38 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/06/04 19:05, JD wrote:
On 06/04/2012 06:53 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Possibly, in the worst case, in a distant future it will be a little
bit
difficult to find consumer-grade hardware, like laptops, which have the
necessary bits – either a switch to disable secure boot, or an easy
way to
install the right keys – to run Linux. That's the worst possible
outcome that
I could see. But, that's not a given, and there's no guarantee that
Microsoft
will succeed in locking down the consumer hardware platform.
It goes without saying that everything must be done to thwart this
thread of
free and open hardware. But paying someone $99 for a certificate is
not how
you go about fighting this thing.
I wonder if China will go along with the MS plans!
Much of our HW is made in China. What's to prevent
China from inserting back door code in the HW? I
mean that would totally make secure boot a laughable
thing.
But, I thought secure meant that the owner could secure access to the
machine any time he wanted. The owner is the manufacturer, isn't it?
{O.o}
I have not seen your assertion made by anyone in this thread,
especially when it comes to MS and windows.
Surely, it is possible (or should be possible) to make and install
your own keys for any of the open source OS'es. Perhaps Sam or
Thibault or Alan will have more to say about this.
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