On 11 June 2012 at 22:27, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Over the past few months, I have been deep into learning > Clojure, and have been rather busy doing contract projects over > the past year, etc, and not paying much attention to latest > news. > > But then I came across this: > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html > > Seriously? I remember the brouhaha over "Trusted Computing" > about a decade ago-- even once found myself with a secondhand > ThinkPad that had some kind of bootloader encryption chip built > in (and unused)--, but I thought that whole idea died the death > it so richly deserved. > > Is it really back? Am I reading this right? All operating > systems to run on any PC must be signed by MSFT? Certified > machines will refuse to boot any loader that isn't > MSFT-approved? > > I'm not panicking, because there will probably always be > enough CPU's and Mobo's available from China without all this > corporate-ware installed. And if phones can be jailbroken then > PCs can too. > > But, still, WTF? Really? http://www.uefi.org/home/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface Lovely, isn't it? ;-p -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
