[haiku-development] Re: Design for signed packages

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 02:12:20 +0100

On 27/03/2014 21:50, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Am 27.03.2014 um 15:44 schrieb François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>:
> 
>> I didn't follow the discussion, but as for me, apart from the SecureBoot
>> crap which as I said is more an instrument of control from Microsoft
>> (actually if you really want to trust the firmware, it must also be free
>> software like Coreboot, not a blackbox), I'm interested in making NSA's
>> job harder just because their job is in most cases illegal (and with the
>> complicity of my own government it seems), and I believe we have the
>> right to privacy and we must defend it.
> 
> But even Microsoft recognized that what they planned as evil and thus
now even
> made it a requirement for the Windows 8 logo that SecureBoot can
> a.) accept certificates from the user and b.) be completely deactivated.

That's news to me, last I heard SecureBoot was mandatory on ARM...

François.

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