Garrett: Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality
Garrett: Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality
Posted Apr 30, 2020 13:31 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: Garrett: Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Garrett: Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality
While you are technically correct, and the GPLv2 license of the kernel allows this, it's zero consolation for the end user who discovers that no, they don't actually "own" their hardware after all.
(...and that there is no "competition" in the "free market" that provices the option for non-restrictive hardware)
Posted Apr 30, 2020 15:17 UTC (Thu)
by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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That is correct. Perhaps awareness of this problem will create market demand for more open hardware. I don't see how pointing fingers at lockdown patches help however. It's not like manufacturers of said restricted hardware can't simply patch their kernels to enforce restrictions regardless of whether they are upstream
Garrett: Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality