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

[kee nethery]

For banking I just purchased a cheap Chromebook. Just got it today. Gonna see if it can talk to all the banks we use. But that is all it will ever be used for, banking.
Kee


On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/26/2012 09:16 PM, Mike Kerner wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Is it just me, or . . . ?
> 
> I would have thought one of the EASIEST ways to avoid one's machine from getting
> mucked up by a rootkit or a bootloader was to make sure one's computer was NOT
> connected to some sort of internet connexion prior and during OS install.
> 
> I must say one of the things I dislike is how OS installs give the impression that they
> won't work without an internet connexion - which is, of course, a load of old tosh.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
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