On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote: > k...@koi8.net a ?crit : > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 20:59:11 Richard Stallman wrote: > > > > The principal purpose of these products is to restrict the > public's > > > > freedom. So it is natural that their means involve restricting > our > > > > freedom too. > > > it sure is nice to make generalities as it makes your resulting > argument > > > so much easier to digest. the companies ive worked with could give > two > > > sh*ts about end customers tinkering with their products. they're > > > interested > > > in keeping their product secure from other people in their > respective > > > industry and from malicious tampering for regulation/safety > purposes. > > > > I would like to add that sometimes regulations EXPLICITELY require > secure > > boot. No product can be approved without it. And this does not have > anything > > to do with public's freedom. Just one example is gambling industry > which I > > happen to work right now. Nobody cares about cloning or public's > freedom > > here. What they care about is that nobody can cheat on those nice > shiny > > machines that sometimes let a lucky person to win a multimillion > jackpot. > > Please point out precisely the regulations that require secure boot. > Should be > trivial as regulations are by definition public.
Do you happen to know what "Google" is? This is our Nevada regulations: http://gaming.nv.gov/stats_regs.htm > I failed to understand how a secure booted machine can be updated by the > manufacturer to fix a bug for example, but not by a customer. The manufacturer can _NOT_ update his machine at will. _EACH AND EVERY_ change goes through the same approval process. And one more hint--external hackers is _NOT_ the primary concern here. The most important task is to make cheating by casino _EMPLOYEES_ as difficult as it's possible. --- ****************************************************************** * k...@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
