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Authored by: jsoulejr on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 01:50 PM EDT |
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Authored by: cassini2006 on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 02:00 PM EDT |
As I understand it, Microsoft is going to use one private key to sign all
copies of Windows 8, and then it is going to generate public keys for all of the
manufacturer BIOSes. Probably, different public keys for each BIOS/machine
revision from the major manufacturers. These manufacturers are then going to
distribute somewhere between 100 million and a billion computers with Windows 8
on it.
No one is going to guess the private key?
If someone does
guess the private key, then what? If new private keys are distributed, then the
BIOS might refuse to boot existing operating systems. Also, malware authors
could use the key distribution system as an attack vector.
How will this work
for VMWare? Will VMWare have an operating system key too? If that is the case,
then what is to stop anyone from virtualizing the O/S boot process, and creating
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Authored by: jvillain on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 02:43 PM EDT |
After reading that I wanted to puke. I am wondering if that is the reason why my
rawhide kernels no longer boot.
This is going to be extremely interesting
though. No one wants windows 8. So when Microsoft has to back down and make
copes of XP 7 available with an upgrade . How are they going to
get it to boot? I guess they could sign a version of win 7. But what about the
companies that have boat loads of win 7 licenses they are sitting on that they
want to use on new hardware? My guess is this is going to end badly for both MS
and the hardware companies that bent over and took it so they could have windows
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Authored by: jvillain on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT |
Just a reminder that the Free Software Foundation has a petition going on that
people who are concerned about this should sign. FS
F Petition
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