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With all those hardware switches, would adding one more for locking the bootloader be a good idea to increase security?

• 0xdeadb00f 7y ago
  What would realistically be the point of that? Doest that defeat the purpose of "locking" a bootloader, if it can be unlocked with a hardware switch?
  • vel0city 7y ago
    I mostly dislike operating devices with unlocked bootloaders because the boot process can then possibly be changed without my knowledge. Ensuring the boot process cannot change without a massive error being thrown helps ensure security of my device. However, it would be nice to easily disable the bootloader lock, make the changes I want, and then just hit a switch and it commits the latest changes. If anything changes in the boot process from the first way it experienced after the physical toggle, refuse to boot until I physically do something about it.
  • Tepix 7y ago
    It could protect you against a rootkit.
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• slim 7y ago
  or even better : a bios rom