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LOL! Trusting NSA for UEFI code is like.... I hope cryptographers and hackers better than what NSA has go through that code with a fine toothed comb.

• ShinTakuya 7y ago
  The title is pretty shitty but you should at least click through before making a comment. This is a contribution to Coreboot, which is an alternative to UEFI/BIOS. As much as I dislike US government agencies in general, I think this time they have good motive to provide good code. Undermining this code would also undermine the systems of other government agencies. In this case, I trust the NSA more than random contributors on the internet that have less known motives and may in many cases be agents of foreign spy agencies.
  • maxheadroom 7y ago
    >The title is pretty shitty but you should at least click through before making a comment. Something, something, site guidelines about suggesting the commentor didn't RTFA. >I trust the NSA more than random contributors on the internet that have less known motives and may in many cases be agents of foreign spy agencies. To be fair, I think that you stated the OC's point and failed to recognise it: Your domestic spy agency is another's foregin spy agency. Why should they trust yours over theirs? Both have (presumably) equally less-known motives, yeah?
  • cannedslime 7y ago
    For non-americans, NSA is a "foreign spy agency"...
    • p_l 7y ago
      And "illegal combatant"
  • p_l 7y ago
    Coreboot is NOT an UEFI alternative. Unless you want to regress computing to closed platforms (it can be open source and closed platform).
    • floatboth 7y ago
      Coreboot is what you can run before an UEFI implementation, they aren't mutually exclusive.
      • p_l 7y ago
        My wish is a good open source UEFI implementation running on top of tight coreboot setup, that goes all out on the security features.