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minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoDoes that mean I will have more choice in which surveillance agency I want to be spied by?
minus-squareUnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoUEFI is a standard, not a product. You could make your own even
minus-squarethe_boxhead@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agohttps://libreboot.org/ Or use this…
minus-squareanon5621@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoTianocore open source uefi implementation exist for many years
minus-squarestupidcasey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoSo that just means UBIOS is explicitly for spying since UEFI is open source and a standard right?
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days ago could could in the same sense that i could check all software i use for bugs and malicious code. realistically, i can’t, because it’s way too much work.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoBut you could work together with other people, and you could be many people that each checked his/her part for malicious code.
minus-squareTangent5280@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoYou could do it with enough people that there is several sections overlapping between unrelated people that it becomes infeasible even for state actors to compromise EVERY person attesting any one piece of software
minus-squaresalacious_coaster@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoMaybe not, if Intel goes tits-up
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoImplying Intel motherboards will ever support more than US govt approved technology now that they have a substantial holding in Intel
Does that mean I will have more choice in which surveillance agency I want to be spied by?
UEFI is a standard, not a product. You could make your own even
https://libreboot.org/
Or use this…
Tianocore open source uefi implementation exist for many years
So that just means UBIOS is explicitly for spying since UEFI is open source and a standard right?
could in the same sense that i could check all software i use for bugs and malicious code. realistically, i can’t, because it’s way too much work.
But you could work together with other people, and you could be many people that each checked his/her part for malicious code.
And you could trust them all!
You could do it with enough people that there is several sections overlapping between unrelated people that it becomes infeasible even for state actors to compromise EVERY person attesting any one piece of software
Maybe not, if Intel goes tits-up
Implying Intel motherboards will ever support more than US govt approved technology now that they have a substantial holding in Intel