Re: Q: secure boot
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 09:01:23AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 23:52:35 +0100
> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> > Another question: do we want it? It's beneficial only if you can not only
> > add your own keys but also _remove_ built-in ones, and typical "consumer"
> > machines don't allow that.
>
> I disagree it. With my understand, secure boot support in Debian is we can
> install Debian without modifying secureboot option in BIOS.
But only the stock kernel, which turns it non-free software.
There's no benefits for us, too -- a thief or attacker can boot/install
Windows, read any non-encrypted data, etc. We're better off if we don't
support secureboot on such hardware. Debian has enough use share to be
named when governments are concerned -- if we start providing "secure"boot
enabled kernels, it'd be an easy sell to lock down consumer machines to
disallow kernels not blessed by Microsoft's key.
Meow.
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