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

[Chris Caudle]

> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:40:30 +1100 (EST)
> From: "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey at boosthardware.com>
> Message-ID: <57377.5.12.188.231.1364503230.squirrel at boosthardware.com>

> 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.

Have you ever used a machine with UEFI?  Have you ever looked at the
specification?  You're coming off as a bit of a nutcase.
Perhaps you forgot, perhaps you were ignorant of the fact, or perhaps you
are just trolling, but Microsoft did not support UEFI for the first
several years it was around.  Intel developed UEFI because legacy BIOS can
not work on Itanium processors.  For the first several years of UEFI
implementations Linux and a few Unix variants were the only thing you
could use.
I can't deny that Microsoft has steered implementations in a direction
they want recently, but that was true of legacy BIOS as well.

-- 
Chris Caudle