On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 22:19, John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is not something that's beneficial here, it's only > harming our users. That seems exceedingly myopic to me. I'm guessing you've not been following the last few years of security research, where attacking the firmware is now the best way to own a machine. And please don't lecture me on why BIOS is more secure than UEFI, "compatibility" mode is implemented *on top of* the UEFI bios these days, rather than as a completely different software stack. > If you've got root, you can STILL do almost anything to the hardware, > including disabling various "firmware protection technologies". I don't think you understand what enabling SecureBoot actually does. Richard. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
