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Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform

Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform

Posted Feb 18, 2013 20:27 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform by hummassa
Parent article: Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform

> Secure boot, OTOH, is a vendor-locking

While it can be used that way by a hardware vendor, and we can call out those vendors and models for shame, that is not the only way this tool can be used and it is not the way it is used in the Linux/x86 world. You can be the owner of your machine, as described in the article.


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