NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alternative

Re:NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alter... by DigitalTerminal on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:55AM (#20248519)

LOL! Trusting NSA for UEFI code is like.... I hope cryptographers and hackers better than what NSA has go through that code with a fine toothed comb.

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Re:NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alter... by ShinTakuya on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:21AM (#20248756)

The title is pretty shitty but you should at least click through before making a comment.

This is a contribution to Coreboot, which is an alternative to UEFI/BIOS.

As much as I dislike US government agencies in general, I think this time they have good motive to provide good code. Undermining this code would also undermine the systems of other government agencies.

In this case, I trust the NSA more than random contributors on the internet that have less known motives and may in many cases be agents of foreign spy agencies.

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Re:NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alter... by maxheadroom on Saturday June 22, 2019 @06:03AM (#20248850)

>The title is pretty shitty but you should at least click through before making a comment.

Something, something, site guidelines about suggesting the commentor didn't RTFA.

>I trust the NSA more than random contributors on the internet that have less known motives and may in many cases be agents of foreign spy agencies.

To be fair, I think that you stated the OC's point and failed to recognise it:

Your domestic spy agency is another's foregin spy agency. Why should they trust yours over theirs? Both have (presumably) equally less-known motives, yeah?

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Re:NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alter... by cannedslime on Saturday June 22, 2019 @07:13AM (#20249027)

For non-americans, NSA is a "foreign spy agency"...

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Re:NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alter... by p_l on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:15PM (#20250344)

And "illegal combatant"

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Re:NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alter... by p_l on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:16PM (#20250348)

Coreboot is NOT an UEFI alternative. Unless you want to regress computing to closed platforms (it can be open source and closed platform).

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Re:NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alter... by floatboth on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:40PM (#20250472)

Coreboot is what you can run before an UEFI implementation, they aren't mutually exclusive.

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Re:NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alter... by p_l on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:46PM (#20250492)

My wish is a good open source UEFI implementation running on top of tight coreboot setup, that goes all out on the security features.

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