Garrett: Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem

Posted Jul 24, 2022 8:09 UTC (Sun) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404)
Parent article: Garrett: Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem

Hmmm.. I understand the grumbles (mostly - I'm not as familiar with TPMs & secure boot as I should be..), but I can't help thinking:

(1) Apple locks their computers down a fair bit (particularly if you lump gianormus phones into small computers)

(2) My system76 desktop is not, and never will be, affected by this, as far as I can tell..

(3) My current job, and the few jobs before that, all involved Mac laptops being the standard computer given out.

So, to me, this sounds like yesterday's battle. But MSFT is making lots of money, somehow. So it probably affects some population of people, I'm just not sure who...