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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by jwilk on Saturday March 04, 2017 @04:38AM (#13790138)
Nope. It should be normally possible to disable Secure Boot.

In fact, many distributions don't support Secure Boot at all.

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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by cyphar on Saturday March 04, 2017 @10:16PM (#13794383)
> Nope. It should be normally possible to disable Secure Boot.

This is only true on x86. On arm, Microsoft's requirements state that it should not be possible for users to disable Secure Boot.

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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by jwilk on Monday March 06, 2017 @02:39PM (#13805398)
But is there any interesting ARM hardware that is certified for Windows? (Honest question, I have no idea.)
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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by cyphar on Monday March 06, 2017 @07:07PM (#13807273)
For Windows RT, looks like there wasn't that many certified devices.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT#Devices

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