Re:Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
by hk_kh on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:27AM
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It seems it is extremely hard to grasp the simple true: only minority of the population is interested in being hackers, programmers and IT guys. They just want to use computers — much the same way like they drive their cars without any wish and ambition to be a car mechanic. It is not "dumbing down" — it is freeing them from caring "how do I make this fucking thing work" to just doing what they want to do: be it browsing Facebook, writing a research paper or calculating orbit to Mars.
Being that the case, what does DRM and the secure boot feature in UEFI add to that experience?
Re:Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
by takluyver on Friday June 22, 2012 @01:16PM
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Secure Boot adds protection against certain classes of malware. It's not complete protection by itself, but it's blocking off one possible kind of attack.
Being that the case, what does DRM and the secure boot feature in UEFI add to that experience?