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Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

Posted Apr 7, 2013 16:10 UTC (Sun) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot by hummassa
Parent article: Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

> strategic and hijack-able beachhead

How is that supposed to work?

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Posted Apr 7, 2013 17:34 UTC (Sun) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

By flipping the theoretical bit that separates "secure" boot from "restricted" boot. Then the only bootable things will be those that are approved by the third party (the original hw's OS vendor, in casu, Microsoft).