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It is absolutely scary to me that "my" computer could be running some OS that I don't want it to run. I have no freedom if someone else controls my OS. That's w
by geofft 8y ago
It is absolutely scary to me that "my" computer could be running some OS that I don't want it to run. I have no freedom if someone else controls my OS. That's why I run free-software operating systems with secure boot enabled.
- frostburg 8y agoAre you aware of the fact that your computer runs a lot of scary code that you can't see anyway? Do you audit the firmware of your drives?
- riquito 8y agoYou don't need to verify everything yourself, when the code is open you can trust one or more third party auditing
- zeusk 8y agoand since when were device firmwares "open" or audited by a "trustworthy" and "competitive" party? I work on OneCore (Windows) and sometimes I have trouble believing the kind of crap some hardware vendors ship as firmware.
- scarface74 8y agoHow did that work out for the HeartBleed bug that was in Open source code for a year?
- geofft 8y agoI am absurdly aware of this. I am also absurdly aware that most free software isn't audited, either, and is full of unintentional security vulnerabilities more exploitable than anything going on with my proprietary firmware. Nonetheless, I believe in incremental improvements. (Note that untrustworthy drive firmware has an easy workaround at least in theory - just do full-disk authenticated encryption, and then the drive can't do anything worse than DoS you, which is sort of a thing drives tend to do on their own anyway.)
- scarface74 8y agoSo have you personally audited every line of code that runs on your computer? What about the firmware?