Comment on Ubuntu drops Btrfs, XFS & ZFS boot support with Secure Boot
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t understand what kind of problem/threat secure boot solves. Is that something useful to end users, or more of a corporative measure to protect their hardware running in untrusted environments?
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 4 weeks ago
As I understand it, it’s Microsoft’s attempt to only allow booting kernels signed by them or their partners. In theory this stops malicious attacks from changing the kernel and have it booted. But Secure Boot is just something you can turn off.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Not only that, earlier this year, it was discovered that there was a flaw in Secure Boot that meant it never even did the one thing it was supposed to do. This update is designed to make it functional for the first time.