Attacking the kernel via its command line

Posted Jun 22, 2017 20:15 UTC (Thu) by thestinger (guest, #91827)
In reply to: Attacking the kernel via its command line by pjones
Parent article: Attacking the kernel via its command line

> I'm sorry that Qualcomm has tricked you, with this 2016 presentation, into thinking when others are talking about Secure Boot they mean some generic concept. I do not, and neither do others in the quoted article and thread that you seem to so vehemently believe are wrong about (apparently) everything.

Here's a data sheet talking about Qualcomm Secure Boot from 2007, if it makes you happier. If you'd like, I can give you documentation from multiple vendors from even earlier.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/attachment.php?attachme...

I'm quite familiar with what desktop Linux distributions are doing, but I don't live in a bubble where those are the only secure / verified boot implementations and they don't get to define generic terms. Elsewhere, there are meaningful implementations that have been shipping for a long time and cover not only the firmware, bootloaders and kernel but also userspace. In the case of iOS, beyond that, but in a weaker way. You would have known that if you had read what I wrote.