I certainly didn't take away the "encourages everyone to ignore those legitimate concerns" from the article. There are many ways that one could implement secure boot type of functionality that wouldn't give a single entity absolute power over your hardware. UEFI secure booting has to be the worst thought out solution to the problem in existence. It certainly wasn't a system designed for the benefit of the end customer in mind. Comparing it to SSL encryption for banking or kernel flaws seems really silly.
Security vs no security doesn't even enter the picture at this point.
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It's about the implementation really
Date: 2012-06-17 07:50 pm (UTC)Security vs no security doesn't even enter the picture at this point.