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		vlowther on Sept 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA Technical Report on UEFI Secure Boot Customiza... Boot time pre-OS malware is not a theoretical risk. At all.

eeZah7Ux on Sept 24, 2020 [–]

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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