The owner of the system should always be able to load arbitrary code into the kernel, and the solution we've implemented permits that. Arbitrary privileged userspace shouldn't be able to load arbitrary code into the kernel unless the owner of the system has explicitly permitted that.
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Re: Secure Boot is subverting security itself
Date: 2013-12-04 08:09 pm (UTC)