On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Gravis wrote:
> As recent news has shown, we also need to start writing new firmware for our
> hard drives. Since so many things have shown to be insecure, the question
> has becomes if it's worth reverse engineering proprietary systems versus
> engineering a libr
UEFI does concern me but it's more an issue of implementation. It's been
made clear for quite some time that the only way to ensure the security of
your computer is to be able to write your own firmware. Coreboot is an
effort for reverse engineering motherboard BIOSes to make a libre BIOS. As
re
Hi, this is a little off-topic, but still relevant I think. You all might
remember that about a month ago I made a post about how I had partitioned
my laptop hard drive GPT-style, which requires UEFI boot. I did this mainly
to learn about GPT and UEFI, not because I wanted to dual-boot with Windows
