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'You have to divulge your private key' meme

'You have to divulge your private key' meme

Posted Jul 2, 2012 22:30 UTC (Mon) by blitzkrieg3 (subscriber, #57873)
In reply to: 'You have to divulge your private key' meme by landley
Parent article: The FSF's advice to distributors on UEFI secure boot

If the end user is able to install grub themselves it means the hardware not locked down.


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'You have to divulge your private key' meme

Posted Jul 13, 2012 19:34 UTC (Fri) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

You can install grub (and several other bootloaders) from inside Windows.

I suspect that doing so on a system that doesn't allow disabling UEFI SecureBoot would then result in an unbootable system though... ;)

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