[SGVLUG] Linus' NSFW Comments on Secure Boot

John Kreznar jek at ininx.com
Mon Feb 25 20:56:07 PST 2013


In a posting purporting to be from James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org>
but lacking a digital signature, it is written

> For those of you at SCALE for Garrett's talk on Saturday, he mentioned
> some comments that Linus made he could not repeat given the kid
> friendliness of the convention.  I believe this article presents those
> comments in context:

> http://tx0.org/5db

What are "PE binaries"?

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

 ...who won't use software he's forbidden to read ("reverse engineer").


   Proprietary software:

   First, they try to get you to accept their black box, but only if you
   promise not to look inside (that would be "reverse engineering").

   Second, instead of offering to compensate you for making this onerous
   vow of ignorance, they try to get money FROM you!

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