They could accidentally sign malware as authentic, but there is support for blacklisting specific signed binaries to ban them from booting, and provision in the Secure Boot spec for distributing the blacklist updates via Windows Update (and other OSes may implement it too)
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Re: Microsoft signed? Is that "secure"?
Date: 2012-12-01 02:54 pm (UTC)