Yeah, honestly Microsoft has even said already, there will be no nagging the
only feature you lose by not using secured booting is the swift boot. if you flip secured UEFI off it just makes windows 8 go into standard boot. fear mongering is not needed, and in the end if a secured boot loader is needed all some one would have to do is like Intel for example, get a signed cert from grub and hand it to manufacturers so then there is a secured open boot loader. The secured EFI is just the same principal as the built in boot sector virus protection. On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:43 PM, john slee <indig...@oldcorollas.org> wrote: > On 2 October 2011 08:03, LeviaComm Networks <n...@leviacomm.net> wrote: > > First off, the UEFI boot will *not* prevent other OS's from booting, it > will > > only pop up a message saying that the boot process was not secure, just > like > > how you can run unsigned code and it will only pop up a box stating as > much. > > It would be impossible to prevent an 'insecure' OS from booting since > that > > would prevent you from booting a newer version of the Windows Installer. > > Ideally UEFI would post a warning stating that the OS signature is not > on > > the list and allow you to add it. > > ... would it? I should think that they could simply sign the new installer > with the existing keys. OTOH it's quite possible that someone will extract > the private key(s) from the hardware, too. It already happened for Apple's > Airport Express, no? > > On balance, I really don't think this is worth the angst and > scaremongering. > > John > > -- Defendere vivos a mortuis
