[LAU] UEFI (was How to turn off hyperthreading?)

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com
> wrote:

>
>
> UEFI is a "microsoft" rootkit and backdoor so "they" (as in "They Live")
> can spy on you and take control of your computer any time "they" want.


This is at best unproven and at worst willfully false.

UEFI does not represent a way to do either of these things. If it could do
that, then so could your existing BIOS.

There is little point in denying that UEFI plays into the interests of
Microsoft and large content providers, but that is very different from you
have claimed here.

--p
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