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Secure Boot is really quite separate from AMD PSB and actually does provide protection against certain attacks, no need for the double quotes. It's fortunate, n
by Avamander 5y ago
Secure Boot is really quite separate from AMD PSB and actually does provide protection against certain attacks, no need for the double quotes. It's fortunate, not unfortunate, that we've gone past such irrational opposition to a reasonable extent.
Irrational opposition like that makes it much harder to talk about what's actually important, such as PSB/PSP, without getting lumped together with the tinfoil crowd.
- userbinator 5y agoIt's most definitely not "irrational opposition". It's the observation that computing systems have slowly become increasingly user-hostile in the name of "security", and the associated rise of authoritarianism. There's no doubt it "does provide protection against certain attacks", but the thing is WE DON'T CARE. We don't want our freedoms slowly being eroded, we see the edges slowly creeping in, and the best way to do that is to take a strong DO NOT WANT attitude towards any such dubious steps in that direction. Most people thought Stallman was in "the tinfoil crowd" 20 years ago. Yet his predictions have turned out more correct than not. Slowly, the frog boils... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859106
- Avamander 5y agoIt's not "rise of authoritarianism" when your bootloader does a few checks you can disable. Stop with the ridiculous overdramatisations. > but the thing is WE DON'T CARE YOU don't care, FTFY. > Most people thought Stallman was in "the tinfoil crowd" 20 years ago. Just because some things RMS has said have become true does not mean that other things he has said will. Neither does that truth value carry over to other arguments considered similar.