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Re:The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users by e40 on Friday October 28, 2011 @10:31AM (#3168409)
"If the software is executed by the boot loader (UEFI), before Microsoft's windows boots, that is not by any fault of windows."

That's what it does after it gets installed. It got installed by attacking Windows itself.

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Re:The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users by recoiledsnake on Friday October 28, 2011 @12:02PM (#3168811)
> It got installed by attacking Windows itself.

The same attack is technically possible in OS X and Linux but not in iOS or WP7. Go figure.

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