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'You have to divulge your private key' meme

'You have to divulge your private key' meme

Posted Jul 4, 2012 17:43 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: 'You have to divulge your private key' meme by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: The FSF's advice to distributors on UEFI secure boot

If one OS signed with the Microsoft key is compromised then they're all compromised - you'd just use the compromised OS to attack any of the others. So if Ubuntu ship a bootloader that allows arbitrary code to be executed, it's not just 10 million Ubuntu machines that are affected. You'd have to ask a lawyer to get a good idea about whether it's anticompetitive, though.


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