Anti-competitive legal letters would be flying at them faster then an F-22 attached to the space shuttle. Their own insecurities are not anyone elses fault. Also, retooling all the factories to insert this BIOS replacement would take nigh-on forever. BIOS's have been around since the beginning of the IBM-compatible PC era.
Boot malware is only troublesome to machines (be they Windows or Linux) ONLY if the attacker is physically there, I'm sure. Not to mention; certificates? How on earth is the OS going to flash the ROM to update certification? -Dante On 21 September 2011 13:56, jacky.alc...@thesii.org <jacky.alc...@thesii.org > wrote: > Guys, this is some scary stuff. If (and us knowning Microsoft, it will) > this gets through, it'd be impossible to boot Linux, and in turn, the > WintermuteOS. This is something I was looking at on this site before and on > DarkReading, but I didn't really think Microsoft would pull through with it. > I, personally, will start looking at the Grub project and seeing what I can > do to help and circumvent this danger.. Windows 8 OEM specs may block > Linux booting <http://shar.es/HPTMd> > Source: itworld.com > > After years of trying to cut off Linux growth as a desktop platform on x86 > and x64 PCs, Microsoft may have actually figured out a way to stop Linux > deployments on client PCs dead in their tracks. <http://shar.es/HPTMd> > jacky.alc...@thesii.org sent this using ShareThis<http://sharethis.com>. >
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