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>if there is no end-user-set firmware password, you can just go into the menu and change "Secure Boot" to "no." The above expected behavior is still quite prev
by fuzzfactor 8y ago
>if there is no end-user-set firmware password, you can just go into the menu and change "Secure Boot" to "no."
The above expected behavior is still quite prevalent.
However with PC's such as the Acer Aspire Switch 10e,
if there is no end-user-set firmware password, you can NOT just go into the menu and change "Secure Boot" to "no."
The option will not be available.
The latter would seem to work as an anti-recycling feature. IOW, since the default user behavior is to not set a BIOS password, anyone disabling secure boot in order to use Linux will have had to set a BIOS password on such hardware first, even if they would not have normally used a BIOS password otherwise.
Later, when the hardware is passed on to a second-hand user without knowledge of the BIOS password, it will not be so easy to fully repurpose the machine without being able to get into the BIOS to make appropriate changes.