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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