IIUC, someone recently released the golden key that is part of the security system underpinning UEFI anyway... the inherent danger of golden keys etc... Deeply flawed system is deeply flawed... On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Russell Coker via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
On Thursday, 25 August 2016 1:23:38 AM AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
Yes, older tech may become a gold mine for those wanting to retain or get back a level of privacy and security that cannot be offered by a "Windows Appliance"... :(
And there is never any guarantees that machines will always be able to run Linux. Some of the new NUC computers from Intel have nothing about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface#GDI_printers
Remember the "Win Printers"? They relied on part of the Windows graphics driver code to perform print rendering. For a while some people were worried about Linux being locked out of the printer market. Then MS released a new version of Windows that didn't support the drivers for those old printers and some of them became Linux-only printers.
non Windows OS support, but I was told, they all run Linux fine... The advertising has been dumbed down, the user is expected to run Windows.
With the Intel ME, CPU issues, hardware implementations [UEFI lock down for one], it doesn't auger well. Then of course there are all the
It is a concern. But one option for the more extremely locked down systems would be to exploit a bug in Windows to root the system, and root it again on every boot.
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