Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard

Re:Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard by yuhong on Monday March 02, 2015 @10:31PM (#9135947)

At least this did not get as much backlash as Superfish did.

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Re:Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard by userbinator on Monday March 02, 2015 @11:38PM (#9136132)

Superfish was preinstalled software that could be removed by following a few steps (or installing a clean OS.)

Boot Guard is a hardware-level protection that cannot be removed or disabled.

Of course the latter is (theoretically) non-malicious, but something of that permanence disturbs me far more than some easily-removed malware. The fact that it is used to ensure that the OS and everything above it is in an "assured state" means that it could also be used to prevent users from uninstalling "approved" software like Superfish.

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Re:Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard by yuhong on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:32AM (#9136393)

I am talking about the press coverage etc.

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Re:Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard by walterbell on Monday March 02, 2015 @10:33PM (#9135954)

Broadwell Thinkpads were announced a month ago, I wonder how many have shipped already? Superfish affected many Lenovo devices.

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Re:Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard by yuhong on Monday March 02, 2015 @10:35PM (#9135957)

It did not affect ThinkPads, but it did affect the reputation of Lenovo regardless.

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Re:Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard by listic on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @03:45AM (#9136709)

This started with Haswell. Hardly anyone seems to care :(

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