In some cases you really have to be able to boot from other media. For instance, when cloning a hard drive, which you might do for backups, but you will also have to do in the course of forensic examination of a machine so as to leave the evidence untouched. Or you may need to do serious file system repair.
This is a much underrated social issue. We have taken for granted for the last 10-20 years a world in which we could do what we wanted with our machines. We are moving into a world in which various players want to control what can be installed or accessed. It comes up in a variety of contexts. You have Apple trying to prevent people installing OSX on other hardware. Then you have the desire to prevent anyone doing bad things with their iPhones, which would include installing the wrong applications. Then you have the desire to prevent people using an app because it gives access to the wrong content, which included the Kama Sutra and some political cartoons. The desire to control what mapping applications are used on the tablets. In the case of Kindle and the Nook you have a desire to prevent or at least inconvenience the use of other stores to buy books. In the case of secure boot, one way to look at it is that MS wants to own the hardware on which its OS has been installed. Anyone who cares about intellectual freedom in the digital age needs to think whether they can spend a little time to educate and lobby their competition regulators about these issues. We do need some more security on bios and booting. But we need the buyer and user to have control, not MS or Apple. Linux is the canary in the coal mine here. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-the-evils-of-secure-boot-tp4657622p4657642.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
