Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

oce@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe not, if Intel goes tits-up

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ouch.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  UEFI is a standard, not a product. You could make your own even

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  • the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    libreboot.org

    Or use this…

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    • spacelord@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This doesn’t support many boards.

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      • the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        True, but I really appreciate that someone is doing it. (It’s far being capabilities…)

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    • anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Tianocore open source uefi implementation exist for many years

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But you could work together with other people, and you could be many people that each checked his/her part for malicious code.

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      • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And you could trust them all!

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So that just means UBIOS is explicitly for spying since UEFI is open source and a standard right?

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• SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There's no need to change mobo to have that, just install Temu app or similars.

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