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Great work. I remember looking at WPBT years ago as a possible means to achieve cloud-init -like functionality for Windows VMs being deployed on bhyve. While
by 1MachineElf 5y ago
Great work.
I remember looking at WPBT years ago as a possible means to achieve cloud-init -like functionality for Windows VMs being deployed on bhyve.
While there is no official mitigation, what's being proposed seems to be modifying the firmware to block vendor content when the code signing certificate is expired. I wonder, what does that mean if I pull mid 2000s ThinkPad out of a dumpster? Assuming WPBT would be handling stuff that's been signed by an expired certificate, would it then boot without the necessary drivers? Could this be a problem for, say, computers preserved for historical reasons, or for evidence/forensics?
- snvzz 5y agoTo add insult to injury, many modern laptops' CPUs won't boot any firmware but that which has been signed by the vendor. So, good luck modifying those ACPI tables to get rid of that crap.