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Taking it seriously

Posted May 31, 2012 22:30 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Taking it seriously by corbet
Parent article: Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora

> There is value in the concept of ensuring that your computers are running only the software you want to be there.

Unfortunately, this value is 99$, so the proposed solution does not provide any security.


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Taking it seriously

Posted Jun 1, 2012 17:15 UTC (Fri) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148) [Link]

So would this scheme be better if the cost of signing was $100,000?

In any case, you aren't paying for a signing certificate, you are paying for Microsoft to analyse your and sign your binary. There is a difference.

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