On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: >> >> The readers of this thread might find this blog posting interesting. >> Don't like Secure Boot? Don't buy a Chromebook. >> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/22465.html > > Which reminds me of a question I have about these braindead "secure" > booting systems: has any company (Google/Miscrosoft/younameit) actually > shown evidence that there are attacks out there in the wild that > subvert/replace the OS's boot sequence? > > I mean, I'm willing to believe there are such attacks out there, but in > order to justify all this pain, they had better be very widespread and > very nasty, yet I haven't heard much about such things. > > So I'd love to see a list of, say, "attacks we have seen in the past and > which would have been prevented by SecureBoot".
AFAIK, BIOS/MBR rootkits such as: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2143 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sysaud4yfgmo4atsjvy0gebxxmr4aydwkddaoqwfqk...@mail.gmail.com
