On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:47:31AM +0100, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > kato...@freaknet.org writes: > >And what if you want to use your own unsigned bootloader? Why should > >you ask someone else the permission to boot your own machine? o_O > > Because I want deny people with physical access the ability to boot unsigned > bootloaders.
Those people with physical access to your machine might get signed bootloaders, e.g., by someone authorised to sign bootloaders on behalf of NSA :) > > I am both the owner of my hardware and the person who usually has physical > access. Requiring signed boot loaders is way to transfer rights from latter > role to someone else — in my case I'd prefer to transfer them to the former > for all portable hardware, so for my next laptop I'm going to do the MOK > stuff described on this list last week. > I don't know much about signed bootloaders, and i will try to re-read the thread to fully understand your statement. Thanks! KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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