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| From: | Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers | ||
| Date: | Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:00:23 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20120603065722.GA16751@waltdnes.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers by Michael Mol |
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| 1 | On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:36:51PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > The BIOS will only load a signed bootloader. The signed bootloader |
| 4 | > will only load a signed kernel. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | OK, so I sign LILO. What code is in there that prevents LILO from |
| 7 | loading whatever kernel I've compiled? |
| 8 | |
| 9 | > The signed kernel will...do whatever you tell it to do. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Define "kernel"... no... seriously. |
| 12 | 1) Could it actually be a hypervisor? |
| 13 | |
| 14 | 2) Or maybe another copy of LILO which proceeds to load the actual |
| 15 | kernel? |
| 16 | |
| 17 | -- |
| 18 | Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers | Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> |