DacoTaco
You do know that the european type e and c also have shutters.. Right? :p
Jokes on you, e2e encryption is already banned in some cases in the uk afaik. Hence apple dropping some cloud services
This is a common thing in a lot of countries actually! And i cant say theyre wrong!
Yup!
And now we are facing the problems many sys admins face every day all over the world: certificate expirations!
Though instead of https(ssl) certificate of a server expiring, its the certificate used to validate what secure boot boots.
Thats what the article is about
A yes, the fun times of a baby haha. Enjoy! :p
Anyway, Secure boot itself was designed by the eufi consortium, which is a group of pc tech companies, to help make sure devices only boot what it can trust. Good on paper and in practice but...
back in circa 2011 microsoft had enforced any pc that wanted to be windows 8 certified ( and get the sticker ) to require secure boot to be enabled together with fastboot. All motherboards needed to have a tpm module with only the microsoft certificate in it. This meant that booting from a usb or cd was completely off the table and you could just not install linux, period.
And even if you did, the kernels or bootloaders were not signed so they would be refused by the bios/eufi.
This was a big thing back then, and canonical and redhat tried and found a few ways around it, and so did some individuals.
But afaik the linux foundation ( which microsoft is part of, funnily enough ) made some binaries that were signed and allowed linux to boot under secure boot, including usb/cd.
Iirc, during the linux installation the distro will add its certificate to the tpm so that kernels signed by the distro boot fine.
To this day, without those binaries from the foundation, it would be impossible to boot linux with secure boot and can still cause issues when dual booting and having bitlocker enabled for example. Bitlocker detects a changed boot state (by grub) and says fuck that, give me the recovery key or i aint decrypting this.
Here is a google search if you want dig deeper, it should all be from circa 2011-2012 :
https://www.google.com/?q=windows+8+oem+to+disable+linux
A quick way to know is if youre running custom build kernel, or use mainline on ubuntu based systems, youre not using secure boot.
Those kernels are generally not signed and the cert is not added to the tpm to allow it. Youd have to have gone out of your way to do it, in which youd know secure boot was enabled :p
With? How it could effect us?
It might. It depends on a lot of stuff.
Microsoft was heavily involved in the making of uefi and secure boot but had heavy resistance from canonical as the early drafts of secure boot would not allow os' to add signing keys to the tpm so a machine would only be able to boot windows.
Thankfully canonical won that debate :')
Source? Hitler was a propaganda writer himself..
I was reading these comments and i had flashbacks of my trips to tesco and saintsbury when i was in edinburgh few weeks ago. Thought it was a worldwide issue for a sec..
Then i saw what instance this post is from and i get it. I feel your god damn pain uk users.
I will add to it that, no i do not like to look at my face, fuck off with that camera
Wdym? Its a solid multiplayer experience like any mh game before it, no?