Without intended to promote dissent, I like UEFI with secure boot when I can upload the signing keys and there is a physical switch on such key storage. That way I can secure my own machine and retain my own freedom.

I acknowledge that UEFI + secure boot generally refers to something more restrictive


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+fsfe@ortolo.eu> wrote:
Hugo Roy, 2013-01-18 15:59+0100:
> Le vendredi 18 janvier 2013 à 09:16 -0500, simo a écrit :
>> What's wrong with UEFI ?
>
> Thank you Simo for pointing it out. What's usually wrong with UEFI (the
> replacement for BIOS) is the "Secure Boot" feature. Matthias published
> an analysis on fsfe.org:
> http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.en.html

But note that there are computers with an UEFI and no Secure Boot.

--
Tanguy

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