[Bradford] Fwd: [lugmaster] Fwd: UEFI / 'Secure boot'

[Brian]

It might be worth contacting avaaz.org under the banner of 'Media Freedom' perhaps.
They carried out a good campaign against Rupert Murdoch.

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/highlights--media-and-internet.php

Brian



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From: Gavin Westwood (LugAdmin) <lug at gavinwestwood.co.uk>
Date: 6 July 2012 23:26
Subject: [lugmaster] Fwd: UEFI / 'Secure boot'
To: UK LUG Masters' private discussion <lugmaster at mailman.lug.org.uk>



This may be of interest to some LugMasters and LUG members.

Gavin


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Subject: [admin] [Feedback] UEFI / 'Secure boot' 
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:19:00 +0100 
From: andy at highfellow.org 
To: admin at lug.org.uk 


Andrew Baxter sent a message using the contact form at http://lug.org.uk/contact. Hello, I found out recently about Microsoft's attempts to persuade hardware  
manufacturers to introduce code-signing at a BIOS level, in a way which may  
make it harder for people to run OSes not approved by MS on PCs and other  
devices. See: http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.en.html and http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/ I contacted the FSF europe ( http://fsfe.org ) to ask them if they are  
running a campaign on this issue, and they emailed me back, asking if I  
wanted to help organising a UK campaign by drafting a letter to MPs. I've  
thought about this, and I don't think I have the time and energy to spare in  
my life at the moment to take it on, but I thought it would be worth emailing  
you to ask if you know of anyone campaigning in the UK on this issue, or if  
you could contact the individual LUGs letting them know what is happening.  
You could give them the contact email of Matthias Kirschner, who is the  
person in the fsfe to talk to ( mk at fsfe.org ). If you are able to do this, could you also include my email, as I would like  
to be kept informed and may have the time later to get something going on a  
local level (e.g. a brief talk at the LUG, or a meeting with the MP). thanks, andrew baxter, lancaster lug. 
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