Surprised they didn’t call it XiBIOS.
If it has secure boot, is opensource, and not dependent on having a single entity approve of self compiled binaries OE blobs (like UEFI forcing Microsoft’s approval of bootloaders), then heck yeah, this might be great! Otherwise, if it’s just some proprietary, closed source alternative to the existing crap, my enthusiasm is limited.
Being tied to a state like Huwei is, is just as bad as being tied to a corporation.
UEFI doesn’t have anything to do with MS. I have deployed desktops at scale with custom CAs for SecureBoot and the Microsoft keys removed on standard off the shelf x86 hardware.
The machine translated version of the Fast Technology/mydrivers article does not mention any of this.
That’s disappointing. But maybe once they officially release it, we will have more information.
Disappointing but not unexpected. Most Chinese companies still work on the “absolute secrecy because competitors might steal our tech” ideology. Which hinders a lot of things…
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Does BIOS have secure boot? Or can secure boot be built upon anything?
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No. And that is a good thing.
Sure. If you want your boot sector to be a super effective attack vector.
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If I managed to get root, either by compromising account credentials or using some sort of escalation exploit, I could write whatever I wanted to the boot sector. Secure boot will prevent that modified boot sector from booting.
“More security is a bad thing” is a weird take
No. And that is a good thing.
Why is that a good thing?
