Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

[Tim]

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 20:56 -0700, JD wrote:
> FWIW, perhaps - just perhaps - this is an attempt by MS and redhat
> (and perhaps others like Oracle), to try an convince government
> customers that a system with a signed bootloader and kernel and
> modules, provides for such greater security, that the gov should spend
> the money to revamp all their installations.

Given Microsoft's past history (decades of it), I find it very hard to
believe that anything that /they/ think is a good idea, is a good idea.
Their track record for security is abysmal, likewise with usability.

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