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Re: Q: secure boot



On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 01:09:50 +0100
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> But only the stock kernel, which turns it non-free software.

 Sorry, I'm not sure what you're saying.


> There's no benefits for us, too

 As I said, our users can install Debian easily. It's huge benefit.


> -- 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.

 What you're talking about? It does NOT depend on whether Debian ships 
 secureboot enabled kernel or not.



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Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>


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