Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS [LWN.net]

Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

Posted Apr 21, 2022 18:01 UTC (Thu) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
In reply to: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by wtarreau
Parent article: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

There is no such thing as outdated means of explotation, you use the right tool, for the right job that helps you obtaining your objectives and likewise with your computer which is a computer originally designed to make your life easier, so you choose the distribution that works for you.

If that happens to be slack good for you, if it happens to be Fedora great, if that happens to be *BSD awesome but please dont fall into this whole "I would have moved to x distro" or worse "If x feature is implemented I stop using the x distro" crowd.

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Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

Posted Apr 21, 2022 20:29 UTC (Thu) by jwarnica (subscriber, #27492) [Link]

This is a physical attack. I'd be sympathetic for remote holes being allowed by policy. It still requires more than a casual attacker.

I won't be that guy to say that if you don't have anything to hide then law enforcement will leave you alone.

But I will say that if you do have something to hide from law enforcement, then its your problem to get a sufficiently modern system to keep them out.