In article <20120708235244.gb24...@thunk.org> Ted Ts'o wrote: > Matthew Garret believes that this is a requirement; however, there is > no documented paper trail indicating that this is actually necessary. > There are those who believe that Microsoft wouldn't dare revoke a > Linux key because of the antitrust issues that would arise.
Hey, it's hardly my fault that nobody else bothered turning up to the well-advertised events where this got discussed... > This would especially true if the bootloader displayed a spash screen > with a huge penguin on it, and the user was obliged to hit a key > acknowledging the spash screen before the boot was allowed to > continue. James is working on a signed bootloader which would do > this. Well, sure, we could associate "Large picture of a penguin on your boot screen" with "your machine has been hacked", but I'm not convinced that's a great strategy. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1sogcu-0007me...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
