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

[Mike Kerner]

Kee, I thought about doing the same thing.  Let me know how it goes.  I've
airgrapped most of our vulnerable systems, and I am seriously considering
pulling the plug on the net except for chromebooks or something similar.


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:02 PM, kee nethery <kee at kagi.com> wrote:

> 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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