On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben.safir@my.liu.edu> wrote:

On 03/27/2015 03:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

Boot kits are a real problem, and Secure Boot does solve that problem.

no, it has created them. it has created serious ones also. Where as before you had a stupid device that walked through ROMs and dependent on the actual presense of hardware, you have now replaced that is a fully intelligent OS that has attack vectors all along the boot process. It is a nasty business.

This is wrong. Boot kits have existed for a long time on BIOS systems, well predating UEFI. Please don't make things up just to demonstrate your ire for UEFI's over complications. Making people distrustful of Secure Boot exposes them to more risk, not less. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org