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Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us
From https://arstechnica.com/information-...-os-reinstalls
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If I understood the article correctly, the firmware was present in the new motherboards coming from the factory. Or is it a virus from the Internet infecting Asus and Gigabyte motherboards?
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https://securelist.com/cosmicstrand-...ootkit/106973/ says
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So glad I have SecureBoot enabled. How reassuring. [/sarcasm]
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The Debian project go so far as to host this little opinion piece on their wiki site (I thought wikis were supposed to be facts, not a platform for Microsoft apologists...): https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot Quote:
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Also from the Debain Wiki:
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I hope newer hardware still allows "Legacy Boot", but I am starting to think that option will be no more soon enough.
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[t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age." - Paraphrasing Star Wars (tvtropes.org) Last edited by jmccue; 29th July 2022 at 03:26 PM. Reason: grammer |
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I guess switching to Debian will make my PC really secure and safe, right? |
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POWER9 is alright. Raptor Computing Systems offer (expensive) machines with fully open firmware.
There were high hopes for POWER10 but IBM decided to use blobs for the memory chips: https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-PO...ot-All-Open-FW Grrr...
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