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UEFI secure boot kernel restrictions

UEFI secure boot kernel restrictions

Posted Nov 10, 2012 1:56 UTC (Sat) by ABCD (subscriber, #53650)
In reply to: UEFI secure boot kernel restrictions by apoelstra
Parent article: UEFI secure boot kernel restrictions

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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