Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@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
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