I want to be able to compile the BIOS and sign it with my own key.
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TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hah! As if. Low level things like that is reserved for the best state-sponsored malware. We can’t be opening that up and letting users (gasp!) protect themselves.
It would also undermine the OS security stuff, in the same way that Nintendo Switches were hacked through the bootloader when they first came out. Just have the BIOS tell the OS everything’s ok. So it really, really is a non-starter, as far as the industry is concerned.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
SharkAttak@kbin.social 11 months ago
On one hand, I fear this could to people trying to have DDR5 speeds on DDR4, but on the other would make easier to spot and fix moronic features like the auto-update on some recent ASUS(?) motherboards.
OrwellianPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah I understand the benefits - and even want them - but I really don’t see it happening. You mentioned the Intel ME, that was introduced right around the time the NSA started their PRISM program. Between commercial and intelligence interests I don’t think this idea will take off. If anything, state actors have been actively preventing open hardware from being developed and sold commercially.