I have too much experience with BIOS updates being hell to apply and bricking systems when they do, and I care much more that my system works than that it has no vulnerabilities. (My system will have vulnerabilities *anyway*, no matter whether I risk my neck by applying a BIOS update or not, so this is asking me to take a real risk of bricking on the order of thousand quid of hardware to solve a very small part of a larger problem. Thanks, but no thanks, not until updating BIOSes becomes as trivial and easy to roll back as updating kernels)
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This normal user of an UEFI system says 'hell no' to Xeno.
Date: 2015-05-29 03:22 pm (UTC)I have too much experience with BIOS updates being hell to apply and bricking systems when they do, and I care much more that my system works than that it has no vulnerabilities. (My system will have vulnerabilities *anyway*, no matter whether I risk my neck by applying a BIOS update or not, so this is asking me to take a real risk of bricking on the order of thousand quid of hardware to solve a very small part of a larger problem. Thanks, but no thanks, not until updating BIOSes becomes as trivial and easy to roll back as updating kernels)
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