My comment from another thread posted earlier with the same news that happened to disappear from the front page[1]: Alright this is getting ridiculous, we aren

My comment from another thread posted earlier with the same news that happened to disappear from the front page[1]: Alright this is getting ridiculous, we aren't living in the 90s anymore and we should be encouraging healthy competition. We now have better alternatives like Macbooks, Chromebooks etc. I can't buy into the reason that Microsoft issued secure boot only to undermine Linux. Infact, Microsoft requires all x86 Windows 8 machines to be able to turn off secure boot and/or add their own keys. This also applies for their own manufactured Surface x86 tablets. I am really looking forward to something like secure boot. Why? Imagine using Truecrypt to encrypt your entire hard drive with 3 layers encryption, and only to defeated by a pesky 10kb keylogging bootloader malware. So unless someone has an alternative solution to this, I am sticking up for secure boot and the ability to add my own keys. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5446148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5446148