Trusted Boot in Fedora

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Tue Jun 28 14:01:39 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit :
> 
> > Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user in no
> > worse position than they were before.
> 
> I don't call placing absolute vetting power in bios writer hands "no worse
> position". I don't thing anyone can point to a "good" bios on real world
> hardware.

I appreciate the disdain - no, really, trust me, I do - but you should
realize that SMM means you already may have no control over the machine.

- ajax
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