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Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

Posted Apr 8, 2013 2:10 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot by viro
Parent article: Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

That sounds like a nasty scenario but I don't think any general security technology can fix that but even in this case you could safely download an updated kernel and the most your fully owned system could do is block the update, it couldn't modify it.


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