[uefi-secure-boot-guide] master: Add a note about a danger of disabling secure boot. (3d03072)

sparks at fedoraproject.org sparks at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 1 21:46:01 UTC 2013


Repository : http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=docs/uefi-secure-boot-guide.git

On branch  : master

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commit 3d0307217753f0c3a9a34c0ee9477b7bb6b32fb3
Author: Josh Bressers <josh at bress.net>
Date:   Thu Jan 31 14:01:48 2013 -0600

    Add a note about a danger of disabling secure boot.


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 en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml b/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
index b13206e..f04666a 100644
--- a/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
+++ b/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ restricted, but user space malware cannot. This of course doesn't mean
 Secure Boot isn't useful, just that it currently only serves a single
 purpose, which is protecting the boot loader.
                 </para>
+				<note>
+					<title>Do not disable secure boot</title>
+					<para>
+						It is important you do not disable Secure Boot if
+your system fails to boot. A plausible attack would be replacing the shim
+with something dangerous and hoping a user will disable Secure Boot to
+solve their problem.
+					</para>
+				</note>
         </section>
 </chapter>
 



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