On 13/06/12 21:09, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-06-13 12:30, Graham Anderson wrote:
On Wednesday 13 Jun 2012 15:21:12 Basil Chupin wrote:
Has someone been "asleep at the wheel", or am I missing the point about all this? They have been fighting malware since... ever, and losing. Each time they release a new Windows version they boast of new security and antimalware features, than later fail or don't meet expectations.
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This technology may prove to be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand you can reduce the attack vectors and make computer systems more secure; on the other hand consumers are now having to ask permission from technology corporations, and by extension the interests that pressure them (entertainment corporations, governments, intelligence services etc...) to use the hardware you already own. Right.
Additionally, how can you trust the harware implementation to not have back doors[2] in it anyway? And do you really trust the certificate authority given that some of root CA's in SSL chains have already been giving out generic certificates for cash for the express purpose of man-in-the-middle attacks. Do you trust Verisign to never give their signing keys to the US Government or intelligence services? Do you trust them enough to assume that no other nation state such as China has not already compromised them and can appropriate the signing keys? Right as well.
But all that is irrelevant. The technology is here this cycle and we can not avoid it, so we need to run with it.
Again, have I been missing something in all of this? Has there been a definitive statement about what *exactly* is going to occur? Or whatever is being written about simply speculation and hearsay? I read - at least I am sure that that is what I read - that one would be able to disable this UEFI-thingie if one doesn't want to use it. Meaning that if one was to only use a Linux system then one wouldn't need this crap. Is this right or wrong? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE 4.8.3 and kernel 3.4.2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org