Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

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> * Vitaly Zaitsev via devel:
> 
> 
> But they also say this:
> 
> | The default state of Secure Boot has a wide circle of trust which can
> | result in customers trusting boot components they may not need. Since
> | the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA certificate signs the bootloaders for
> | all Linux distributions, trusting the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA
> | signature in the UEFI database increase[]s the attack surface of
> | systems. A customer who intended to only trust and boot a single Linux
> | distribution will trust all distributions–much more than their desired
> | configuration.
> 
> And this is an accurate description of the situation. 
> 
> Unfortunately, Fedora promoted this broken model with pervasive
> cross-distribution/cross-OS trust as well.  People are generally quick
> to criticize those who control a PKI, but very few organizations are
> willing to step up to hold the key material for the key of last resort
> because of the risk inherent to that.  Consequently, pretty much all
> distributions hide behind the Microsoft key, instead of running their
> own PKI and working with OEMs to get it accepted by the firmware.

I mean there are hundreds of distributions, and hundreds if not thousands of OEM. How could that even work? _maybe_ major OEMs would pick up the phone if it's Redhat, Canonical and maybe SUSE who are calling. What about everyone else?
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