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I understand the risk and want to forego secure boot. What's wrong with that?
by wildrhythms 5y ago
I understand the risk and want to forego secure boot. What's wrong with that?
- philistine 5y agoI'm on the Mac side, and I wanted to reinstall macOS. I messed up the hard drive wipe and ended up breaking the chain of trust. That meant Apple could no longer guarantee the correctness of my install, and no longer allowed my laptop to decrypt my data to reach the login screen directly. I had to input the password for my login at an earlier step during boot, which comes with a litany of small caveats. I'm sure Microsoft hopes to achieve something similar here at some point: secure boot would give them enough trust to decrypt an install upon boot all the way to the login screen.
- zozbot234 5y agoAt least you could recover by simply typing a login password. A similar screwup on a Windows box might require you to resort to BitLocker recovery keys, which add a fair bit of complexity and some users might not have these at all.
- Datagenerator 5y agoNothing wrong with freedom. Not running the master of all telemetry OS increases the possibility to read and study what you want without feeding the data hungry sensors Microsoft has set in stone for you. These datasets are brought to market with your consent (see the thousands of EULA pages you accepted directly and indirectly).