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James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

If you disagree with Secure Boot consider signing the petition....

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot

bark_bark_bark · Posted: Sun 13 Jan 2013, 13:55 Post subject:

that petition is old. Plus Microsoft wouldn't really listen to the minority (and that minority is the Linux User). MS can really do what ever they want as long as they have multiple governments on their side.

EDIT: Also Secure Boot is disable-able

Amgine · Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 212 Location: Washington State

Plus
There are also a lot of new options, Grub 2 and another called "Shim". I do no think this is a problem anymore.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Microsoft have been very cagey about how they implement "secure boot". If a PC vendor wishes to carry the windows 8 logo then they must implement secure boot. Now, this, as I understand, is firmware that replaces the traditional BIOS, much like macs do it. The problem then becomes different for every different PC

https://gitorious.org/tianocore_uefi_duet_builds/pages/How_UEFI_booting_works

It's a complex problem with more than one answer.

PS: I signed, around number 41000

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3013 Location: Oregon

I also signed that petition.
But what got my attention afterward was an email supposedly from FSF requesting money to support their efforts to fight secure boot.

Smithy · Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 198

From the tone of the website, this secure boot thing seems to be targetted towards females only?

"This could be a feature deserving of the name, as long as the user is able to authorize the programs she wants to use, so she can run free software written and modified by herself or people she trusts".

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

Its because there is no gender neutral way to refer to a single person in the English language. This has been covered in another murga topic. You either have to use male or female orientation or the clunky s/he his/her. Sometimes those conscious of the default male orientation use the female one for a change.

starhawk · Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2013, 14:26 Post subject:

I signed the petition, knowing it won't do anything. Resistance is resistance, however futile.

If this Secure Boot garbage takes over, I'll just cobble computers together with old parts, until they make it illegal to have old parts under the heading of "national security" or "cybersecurity" or some other BS.

Hm. Secure Boot, SB. Bull****, BS.

I think I just noticed something.

Also, isn't it amazing how the human need for safety and one's internal fear mechanisms (rather a linked pair) are so strong that any perceived threat, however real or fake, has to be addressed almost immediately? Combine that with peoples' current DRASTIC lack of understanding about computers and you get a pile of sheep that will follow the fear-mongers wherever they go... just on the off chance that these fear-mongers are right (which they almost never are).

The world is mad.

bark_bark_bark · Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:04 Post subject:

Sorry Windows 8 and Windows 8 PCs already has Secure Boot.

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

The wording in that article says:

bark_bark_bark · Posted: Tue 15 Jan 2013, 21:21 Post subject:

Since the BIOS cam up just now in my head, someone told me that their MSI Motherboard has a Web Browser built-in, wow that means trouble.

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Staffordshire

Probably referring to Winki
Panic over...

linuxbear · Posted: Wed 16 Jan 2013, 15:38 Post subject:

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starhawk · Posted: Wed 16 Jan 2013, 17:44 Post subject: