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UEFI secure boot kernel restrictionsUEFI secure boot kernel restrictionsPosted Nov 9, 2012 15:45 UTC (Fri) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)In reply to: UEFI secure boot kernel restrictions by anselm Parent article: UEFI secure boot kernel restrictions
> AFAIK the switch on an SD card doesn't actually physically prevent writing to the card; if engaged it's really more like a suggestion to the kernel to not allow writing to the card, so it wouldn't gain you additional security.
This is correct, unfortunately. I don't know of any consumer media with hardware write protection (other than compact discs, which can be written only once..).
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UEFI secure boot kernel restrictions Posted Nov 9, 2012 23:45 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Floppy disks!
(You didn't say the consumer media couldn't be decades obsolete...)
UEFI secure boot kernel restrictions Posted Nov 10, 2012 1:56 UTC (Sat) by ABCD (subscriber, #53650) [Link]
There are USB thumb drives out there with write-protect switches that (at least supposedly) prevent the computer from writing to the drive. I don't know what would happen if the OS decided to ignore the write-protect switch and write anyway, though.
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