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2025-01-10 07:41 UTC
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@nqua@universeodon.com 2025-01-11 02:38
@k1000@mamot.fr @timixretroplays@digipres.club >and forcing you to upgrade your hardware due to it's lack of optimization i have a hypothesis, why they want to enforce you to buy new hardware now (and not in a year or later)... https://borncity.com/win/2024/08/07/attention-microsofts-uefi-certificate-expires-on-oct-19-2026-secure-boot-affected/ my hypothesis is that they do this now avoid publicity for already having completely bricked most PCs by now which but comes into effect in 2026. if most people buy new ones now this is a very less concern for microsofts PR. but what if secureboot is good in theory? currently secureboot is only(!) good in theory. practically it does not protect you or anyone from anything because an attacker or you can simply (offline) install a buggy but signed bootloader and boot whatever he wishes besides secureboot activated. i find it amusing that the tonload of bugs microsoft has put into their products backfires this way: https://www.csoonline.com/article/573395/new-exploits-can-bypass-secure-boot-and-modern-uefi-security-protections.html and also secureboot is broken just because it was not introduced with security in mindset: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/