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> There is no scenario where non-technical users boot into a malignant OS. According to the report there is, and I believe the report is correct, when the "mal
by hvdijk 6y ago
> There is no scenario where non-technical users boot into a malignant OS.
According to the report there is, and I believe the report is correct, when the "malignant OS" is not actually a full OS, but rather a rootkit. This rootkit might have been the result of a non-technical user opening a mail with a strange attachment.
- raxxorrax 6y agoRight, there are such scenarios, but it comes with disadvantages that are also relevant to security, to a larger degree in my opinion, and the mechanism is not excluding every form of rootkit. If you open a malignant attachment and execute it, there is just so much you can do.
- shawnz 6y agoThere are no security disadvantages that come with enabling Secure Boot. Doing so doesn't give anyone any additional control over your workstation.
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoThe secure boot "solution" requires trusting a huge amount of closed software and hardware. It's supposed to protect from a very theoretical risk.