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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/03/2013 16:26, Dave Cridland
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On 18 Mar 2013 15:35, "Peter Bradley" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:p.bradley@dsl.pipex.com">p.bradley@dsl.pipex.com</a>>
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> Hi all,<br>
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> I've recently been having an email correspondence about
secure boot (and more generally on the bundling of Windows on
PCs) with Julie Morgan MP, who happens to be my representative
(i.e. nothing to do with party affiliation or anything like
that). She's been quite helpful and has contacted the OFT for
me and sent me scans of their reply.<br>
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> I'm not sure I want to pursue this for much longer, as I
don't want to appear to her like a lone geek with a chip on his
shoulder - whether or not that is true. However, if anyone else
was interested in chipping in in some way (perhaps with their
own representative(s)), and if Julie Morgan agreed, I'd be happy
to make the email chain and OFT response available. The
correspondence is in Welsh, but I'd be happy to translate.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd be interested in seeing the correspondence and
the translation, certainly, though it's a subject I know very
little about.</p>
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I'd be interested in knowing more and seeing the documents. No need
to translate for me either.<br>
I have heard a bit about this and this link offers some
clarification.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zdnet.com/torvalds-clarifies-linuxs-windows-8-secure-boot-position-7000011918/">http://www.zdnet.com/torvalds-clarifies-linuxs-windows-8-secure-boot-position-7000011918/</a><br>
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It looks like with as Torvalds puts it "Key signing authorities that
trust anyone with credit card" . that it is an old variation<br>
of a big security loophole that I call "The Identity Delusion". This
is the delusion that proof of identity exists. If you stop and think
of it<br>
of course it cannot. You can only really be sure of the identity of
people who you have known since childhood any other system fails.<br>
It is the same here with secure keys. They are only as secure as the
people who create them. <br>
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Neil<br>
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