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

• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

  source

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    source

    • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And you could trust them all!

      source

      • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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

        source
      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why would you do it with people you don’t trust?

        source
• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  source
• the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  libreboot.org

  Or use this…

  source

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tianocore open source uefi implementation exist for many years

    source
  • spacelord@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This doesn’t support many boards.

    source

    • the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      source