Comment on Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers

• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh anyone who doesn’t trust Microsoft with their life is a complete idiot. And the NSA only illegally spied on everyone until Bush the II made it legal! So of course we should unquestioningly follow their configuration guides. I mean - haha - we don’t wanna get disappeared! Haha ha. Not. Not that that’s ever happened. That we know of. For sure. Probably.

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    in regards to security

    in regards to security

    in regards to security

    in regards to security

    Just wanted to make sure you saw it this time because you went off on a tangent there.

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    • freeman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It doesn’t matter if they know about security (which they do). A burglar could know about locks and home security systems, would you take his advice?

      Their positions on security of others is dismissed on grounds of trust not of competence.

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      • mriguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The NSA has two jobs.

        The first is to break into any computer or communications stream that they feel the need to for “national security needs”. A lot of leeway for bad behavior there, and yes, they’ve done, and almost certainly continue to do, bad things. Note that in theory that is only allowed for foreign targets, but they always seem to find ways around that.

        The second, and less well known, job is to ensure that nobody but them can do that to US computers and communications streams. So if they say something will make your computer more secure, it’s probably true, with the important addition of “except from them”.

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      • capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A burglar could know about locks and home security systems, would you take his advice?

        Literally, yes. There was even a TV show about it.

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      • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A burglar could know about locks and home security systems, would you take his advice?

        If they were an expert burglar, I might

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      • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Exactly, they have a clear conflict of interest

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hey what is that, some kinda tangent

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• Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Security is the last thing NSA and Micro$oft care about. NSA wants to be sure they can do all they need to with your devices, and M$ just wants to discourage you from switching to linux.

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  • ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is obviously insane

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    • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lol, if you say so

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