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> turn PCs into locked-down devices like the mobile world I used to wonder, even before iPhone and Android, how far away we were from a world where most “compu
by commandlinefan 7y ago
> turn PCs into locked-down devices like the mobile world
I used to wonder, even before iPhone and Android, how far away we were from a world where most “computers” were effectively unconfigurable and unprogrammable, and actual programmable computers like the ones we’re used to became relatively rare “makers tools”. That does seem to be the way things are headed; there may come a point in our lifetimes where almost nobody has a “programmers computer” in their house.
- AceJohnny2 7y agoThis may be relevant, from 2012: "Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing" https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html Note that the UEFI spec for x86 requires user-modifiable keys (after public outcry), but the spec for ARM requires NO user-modifiable keys. (Edit: actually this may only be a Windows requirement)
- p_l 7y agoUEFI spec insists in root of trust being specified by vendor, Microsoft requires ability to set completely owner-controlled keys because they offer that as part of highest security mode on Windows for corporate clients.
- xxpor 7y agoDoes anyone actually use uefi on arm (maybe outside of surface tablets?)
- als0 7y agoAll modern ARM servers use UEFI since it's required by their server base architecture specifications.