He who for others digs a pit, will one day find themselves in it.
What that says is that hackers will find a way to blacklist Microsoft and change all of the MS keys, including the backdoor ones. Instead of UEFI blacklisting an uncertified distribution, it will be MS and MS Windows that will be blacklisted. And I forecast that it will happen in 2013 when the hackers will also change the Bios vendor's backdoor keys to further changes. The bios had better be a plug-in chip.
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Re: +1 @ Wake Up!
Date: 2012-12-30 02:39 pm (UTC)He who for others digs a pit, will one day find themselves in it.
What that says is that hackers will find a way to blacklist Microsoft and change all of the MS keys, including the backdoor ones. Instead of UEFI blacklisting an uncertified distribution, it will be MS and MS Windows that will be blacklisted. And I forecast that it will happen in 2013 when the hackers will also change the Bios vendor's backdoor keys to further changes. The bios had better be a plug-in chip.