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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-December/009028.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-December/009028.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ef3a59741 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-December/009028.html @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] FSF anf UEFI SecureBoot + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20FSF%20anf%20UEFI%20SecureBoot&In-Reply-To=%3C1687132.1IyJvRnA9v%40localhost%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="009027.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="009030.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] FSF anf UEFI SecureBoot</H1> + <B>AL13N</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20FSF%20anf%20UEFI%20SecureBoot&In-Reply-To=%3C1687132.1IyJvRnA9v%40localhost%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] FSF anf UEFI SecureBoot">alien at rmail.be + </A><BR> + <I>Sun Dec 30 22:36:20 CET 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009027.html">[Mageia-discuss] FSF anf UEFI SecureBoot +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009030.html">[Mageia-discuss] FSF anf UEFI SecureBoot +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9028">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9028">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9028">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9028">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Op zondag 30 december 2012 21:17:38 schreef Ludovic V Meyer: +><i> Except it does let 3rd parties OS boot, at least on X86, since the norm +</I>><i> mandate it. +</I>><i> And for arm tablet, no one reacted when Apple, Acer, Samsung, Archos and +</I>><i> lots of others locked down their devices, so trying to argue that we now +</I>><i> expect them to be open would not work. +</I> +actually, they didn't. you can root each of those iinm. + +this is about having a secure key hardcoded "burned" in the device, which is +both stupid and annoying. because since apps need to be secured too, too many +people have access to the root key. which means the chance of leak is higher. +which means that your devices need to be thrown out when the rootkey is +compromised or when it's deemed obsolete and a new key will be in place. + +the thing here is that since you buy a device, it's yours and you can do what +you want with it. why would you give other parties control over your device? +it's stupid. there needs to be a way as an owner to decide which root keys you +trust or not. + + +><i> And regarding using consumer protection channels, no one did anything to +</I>><i> make anything move since one year despite being widely publicized on +</I>><i> various blogs, so how is your proposal different ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Talk is cheap, if every people who proposed that ( for example, on slashdot +</I>><i> or various foras where nerds are discussing ), someone would have started +</I>><i> the work by the time. No one did, and that's because everybody that would +</I>><i> be serious enough know this is built on wrong assumptions. +</I> +in the end talk is cheap and noone does anything about it. or rather instead +of working together, all the companies who back the major linuxes decide to go +down the easy route. (like subscribing into the microsoft program and using +their root key...) + +[...] + +PS: please don't toppost. +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009027.html">[Mageia-discuss] FSF anf UEFI SecureBoot +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009030.html">[Mageia-discuss] FSF anf UEFI SecureBoot +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9028">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9028">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9028">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9028">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |