said by dave:
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"21. MANDATORY: Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure MUST NOT be possible on ARM systems."
You are a conspiracy nut, aren't you?
No, I trust no one, especially, ms and crapple. ever, period.
I just can't believe the naivete some of you have in regards to this.
Wow!
Big whoop, its written that this is mandatory. Who is going to enforce this in its present state? intel, the shill and puppet for ms in this mess? Puhlease! EFF, FSF? I don't know.. but a 3rd party non affiliated group/agency with some real enforcement power.. No I have no clue who that is.
In your "perfect/fantasy land world" where companies may be ethical and moral that may work... were not dealing with a company who could even be in the same universe as that fantasy land. They almost make Enron look ethical. Almost.
Plain and simple. Linux Boot Block started out with good intentions, but in my personal opinion, its use as a whole is specious at best. Its been corrupted into a competition killer. The only real reason for this is to appear to "secure" an "OS" that is so insecure to start its pathetic.
If you think Dell (insert other HP/Compaq/Gateway/Alienware etc) is going to build hardware that is not going to get the "blessing of the devil" your madder than me. To get that blessing will require Linux Boot Block. It may start out with a means to disable it... slowly but surely this will erode till it can not be disabled.
The same applies to ASRock, Gigabyte and others making bare MB's they will eventually remove the option to disable the Linux Boot Block.
I am not thrilled with it, but the OEM/ODM are making either complete systems or parts to be compatible with the company trying to put Linux out of business. ASRock could care less whether they work on Linux.. thats only going to get worse.
ms was the sponsor of the UEFI summit, currently occurring. GEE! Big surprise...who benefits the most from this? hmmm.....
Any one not seeing this for what it is, has failed to take past history with this company into consideration. This is clearly anti competitive. Legal action should be pursued against ms and intel, possibly the UEFI foundation too. Yes. I like to see them both out of business or at least ms. I don't care for intel products, but of the two I have less hatred for them. I don't care what they are or are not doing for Linux. I just don't like them.
No big deal, just disable the Linux Boot Blocker.. OK.. thats fine.. while its present...
You think it will be present in the future? Well your just not taking the past actions of this kabal into consideration...
So what do you do when this is required? No way to disable it?
You get the various keys into the BIOS? And thats going to happen for Jane User how? ? ? You can bet that the only key that ships in the BIOS will be one. The hassle alone on getting a key into a BIOS will just drive off more users.
This is trouble with a capital T, right here in River City!