Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform

> There is a similarity to jailbreaking guides, they both involve performing a sequence of technical steps around the early boot environment, but that's where the similarity ends.

It is all that is needed. I only see "secure" boot as effective in forcing jailbreak-like activities and steps on users that want to exercise the liberty of changing their operating system, usually for a better option for them.

It still seems to me that "secure" boot, even if succeeding in locking the core OS to be loaded -- which is doubtful at best --, does not add anything but Zero to the security of the system in general and, in particular, does not preclude the installation of programs that would steal keystrokes, passwords, or files, or that provoke unwanted hardware interactions.

If you really cannot see that, we will have to agree in disagreeing... after all, I cannot force you to be right. :-D