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Another approach to UEFI secure boot

Posted Oct 18, 2012 16:22 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
Parent article: Another approach to UEFI secure boot

Can one build a bootable USB key which also register as an USB keyboard and answer y for you at boot time ?

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Posted Oct 19, 2012 17:52 UTC (Fri) by sarah (subscriber, #49619) [Link]

That's totally evil, but technically do-able if you have a programmable USB device. However, most USB mass storage devices aren't reprogrammable at that level. Requiring users to buy some random dev board off of sparkfun in order to install their new Linux OS is just not going to work, socially.

Another approach to UEFI secure boot

Posted Oct 19, 2012 21:23 UTC (Fri) by alonz (subscriber, #815) [Link]

On the other hand, getting people to boot off random USB sticks (e.g. found on the subway) is not hard… And with a bit of innovative engineering, these sticks may now be more than they seem.