Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org wrote on Thu Sep 22 22:07:07 CEST 2011 :
>The EFI/UEFI designers went to some lengths to harden the system against malware -- unfortunately they could only harden it, not immunize it. I know only very limited stuff about this, but I thought that this was mainly to check that copies of windows were 'non-pirated', and has come under some criticism that they might be able to exclude some from running linux OS's ... At any rate, my laptop motherboard, (and those of my friends), don't use the UEFI. My concern is, how vulnerable (in the 'real world' for my limited threat model, and non-UEFI motherboards), is it to run gnupg from a usb and an Ubuntu install disk, when booting bypasses the harddrive's mbr altogether, even considering known bios rootkit infections? (or are we drifting into really OT waters already? ;-) ) vedaal _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
