[Nottingham] More money for nothing

Jason Irwin jasonirwin73 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 12:33:59 UTC 2011


On 21/09/11 11:17, Chris Hayes wrote:
> So. I suspect that we all feel pretty strongly about such revelations.
> What can we do about it?

I'm not sure, but we'd better do something.  Seems that the UEFI (BIOS
ROM replacement) proposal could effectively block any alternate OS from
booting and prevent anyone from rolling their own.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/secure_boot_firmware_linux_exclusion_fears/

-- 
Jason Irwin



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