Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot

baronvonj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• breezeblock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s a universe of difference between changes you intended to make in your system, and changes you didn’t intend because a state actor attacked you based on your social media criticism.

  Unlike with closed source software, you can always decide you don’t want your software to be secure.

  What you should be worried about is not software but hardware.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Uhhhh…wha?

  This would be a big deal for hardware manufacturers or product manufacturers in securing their devices. Only a tiny, tiny fraction of Linux users are just desktop jockeys.

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  • baronvonj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I was referring to this

    If this technology is successful, the end result could be that we would see our Linux laptops one day being as locked down as an Iphone or Android device.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What if the thing that you want is to have SecureBoot-enforced hardware attestation?

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      • baronvonj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What if it was just an off the cuff joke?

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That would be beneficial to users as well. I’m not understanding the downside here.

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      • deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Only being able to install “allowed” apps is not great for freedom.

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      • baronvonj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I guess you’re not thinking of “locked down” in terms of independent developers finding the iOS and Android “play by our rules and be distributed thru our app store or we’ll make it hard for users to run your software” to be a barrier to distribution.

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