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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/04/08/1715213/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-a…

…chnically correct. UEFI doesn't enhance anything, it doesn't force secure boot. Secureboot however objectively does enhance security, it's literally an open standard which puts encryption keys to validate the boot process in the hands of the user. MS has no stranglehold what so e…

http://it.slashdot.org/story/26/01/23/1910235/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryp…

…t has saved my ass before. This is because anything that makes a change to your SecureBoot environment (like, from linux for example- which is what happened to me) will render Windows unbootable without a recovery key, and if you didn't bother to save it, you're in for a bad time…

https://old.calculate-linux.org/packages/flags

…e) to perform system call filtering at runtime to increase security of programs secureboot - Automatically sign efi executables using user specified key selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur…

https://jwz.org/b/yk41

… with signed binaries, signed kernel, and signed kernel modules, with mandatory secureboot, and controls to prevent any non-signed software from being installed, written, or compiled, as any foreign sources of software may fail to query systemd-censord or may fail to respect the …

http://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot

…er, Ed Bott, reports : A Dell spokesperson stated that, “Dell has plans to make SecureBoot an enable/disable option in BIOS setup.” HP has only stated that, “HP will continue to offer its customers a choice of operating systems. We are working with industry partners to evaluate t…

https://slashdot.org/~fafalone

…ement for the entire system, every time can't make it persistent, and must have SecureBoot disabled. Now granted malware etc can evade that, but typically only by exploiting a loaded signed driver... no chance anything doing that doesn't get flagged. I've been warning for years t…

https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot

…gger, Ed Bott, reports A Dell spokesperson stated that, “Dell has plans to make SecureBoot an enable/disable option in BIOS setup.” HP has only stated that, “HP will continue to offer its customers a choice of operating systems. We are working with industry partners to evaluate t…

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t580.html

…her with little fuss. Libreboot does away with nasty anti-features such as UEFI SecureBoot (nasty because it makes using free operating systems harder), instead implementing its own optional security methods that are completely within the user’s control, such as GPG signature che…

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/10/1737251/microsoft-begins-the-first-ever-secure-bo…

…sides to some part of this discussion. There are no downsides to having TPM and SecureBoot enabled. It does provide a meaningful benefit, and anything that actively uses it nefariously a Re: Score: by tijgertje ( 4289605 ) writes: The downside: your machine failing to boot when t…