[OT] the evils (?) of secure boot.

[Mike Kerner]

Rootkits and bootloaders are a threat that cannot be addressed reasonably
any other way.  If you want to talk about lousy security on the inside,
Windows cannot even hold a candle to the laughably-bad ICS's.  Back in The
Day I felt like I was the one who was wrong because I kept pointing out out
horribly bad the security on PLC's and their related controllers are.


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Robert Sneidar <slylabs13 at me.com> wrote:

> I get the sense that this is the philosophy towards security that
> Microsoft executives have always made in respect to securing their OS and
> software: Always take the shortest path between the problem and the golf
> course. In this case it manifests itself by locking everything down so
> tight the end user can hardly move, then putting up horror movie warnings
> if the user tries to change anything. But fundamentally rethinking how they
> write their software in the first place? Unthinkable!!
> Bob
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Mike Kerner wrote:
>
> > nearly as annoying, to those of us who have tried Windows 8, is that you
> > can't just go to the store and get a Win 7 machine in most cases.  You
> have
> > to order one.
> >
> > So, if you want to run Linux as your primary OS, the challenges mount.
> >
> > If you want to boot from a liveCD for your corporate banking, the
> > challenges are even higher.
> >
> > Trying to do all three is....well....discouraged.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.**php?issue=20121126#qa<
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20121126#qa>
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On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."