Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

[JD]

On 06/04/2012 07:38 PM, jdow wrote:
> On 2012/06/04 19:05, JD wrote:
>> On 06/04/2012 06:53 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>>
>>> Possibly, in the worst case, in a distant future it will be a little 
>>> bit
>>> difficult to find consumer-grade hardware, like laptops, which have the
>>> necessary bits – either a switch to disable secure boot, or an easy 
>>> way to
>>> install the right keys – to run Linux. That's the worst possible 
>>> outcome that
>>> I could see. But, that's not a given, and there's no guarantee that 
>>> Microsoft
>>> will succeed in locking down the consumer hardware platform.
>>>
>>> It goes without saying that everything must be done to thwart this 
>>> thread of
>>> free and open hardware. But paying someone $99 for a certificate is 
>>> not how
>>> you go about fighting this thing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I wonder if China will go along with the MS plans!
>> Much of our HW is made in China. What's to prevent
>> China from inserting back door code in the HW? I
>> mean that would totally make secure boot a laughable
>> thing.
>>
>
> But, I thought secure meant that the owner could secure access to the
> machine any time he wanted. The owner is the manufacturer, isn't it?
>
> {O.o}
I have not seen your assertion made by anyone in this thread,
especially when it comes to MS and windows.
Surely, it is possible (or should be possible) to make  and install
your own keys for any of the open source OS'es. Perhaps Sam or
Thibault or Alan will have more to say about this.