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Verisign locked UEFI BootloadersPosted on Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 4:05 am by grantbow |
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What is this? Some vendors want to lock down the new UEFI boot loader on machines they sell you. It seems Red Hat and Fedora have some arrangement with Microsoft. Our own zareason will ship all systems with UEFI Secure Boot disabled until a more workable solution is found. The story has evolved quickly.
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html
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June 18th, 2012 at 11:01 am
New UEFI article by the Linux Foundation. https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/588498:uefi-secure-boot-big-hassle-questionable-benefit
July 13th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols @sjvn, Cathy Malmrose got some press on ZDnet! http://www.zdnet.com/another-way-around-linuxs-windows-secureboot-problem-7000000829/
August 13th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
An older LWN article from October 2011. http://lwn.net/Articles/464394/
August 13th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
This May 2012 article by the EFF is very helpful and talks about Windows 8 as well as Apple OSes. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/apples-crystal-prison-and-future-open-platforms
August 13th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Some people have started thinking a few steps in the future about this too. Audio & Stewart Brand’s Summary are up for Cory @doctorow’s Seminar “The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer” – http://goo.gl/nRmUi via @longnow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
November 25th, 2012 at 11:10 am
Microsoft is still blocking Linux from booting? What a surprise!
http://www.zdnet.com/linux-foundation-uefi-secure-boot-key-for-windows-8-pcs-delays-explained-7000007841/