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eeZah7Ux
on Sept 24, 2020
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NSA Technical Report on UEFI Secure Boot Customiza...
The secure boot "solution" requires trusting a huge amount of closed software and hardware.
It's supposed to protect from a very theoretical risk.
vlowther
on Sept 24, 2020
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Boot time pre-OS malware is not a theoretical risk. At all.
eeZah7Ux
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No. The attack is real. The risk is just not there. Most systems have valuable data on the current OS rather than a future one.
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It's supposed to protect from a very theoretical risk.