[LAU] OT: Wait, did [UEFI] just really happen?

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 11 June 2012 at 22:27, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:

> Over the past few months, I have been deep into learning
> Clojure, and have been rather busy doing contract projects over
> the past year, etc, and not paying much attention to latest
> news.
>
> But then I came across this:
> 
> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
>
> Seriously? I remember the brouhaha over "Trusted Computing"
> about a decade ago-- even once found myself with a secondhand
> ThinkPad that had some kind of bootloader encryption chip built
> in (and unused)--, but I thought that whole idea died the death
> it so richly deserved.
>
> Is it really back? Am I reading this right? All operating
> systems to run on any PC must be signed by MSFT? Certified
> machines will refuse to boot any loader that isn't
> MSFT-approved?
>
> I'm not panicking, because there will probably always be
> enough CPU's and Mobo's available from China without all this
> corporate-ware installed. And if phones can be jailbroken then
> PCs can too.
>
> But, still, WTF? Really?

http://www.uefi.org/home/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface

Lovely, isn't it?  ;-p

--
Kevin