● 07.30.20

●● UEFI ‘Secure Boot’ is Just a Security Mess, as Techrights Predicted All Along, and FSF Should Not Have Given That Award

Posted in FSF, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, Security at 4:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Related: My Disagreement With the FSF Over UEFI ‘Secure Boot’ (2014)

Award for UEFI? Why? He now works for Google by the way.

FSF sponsors at the time. Bidding war for bias/self-censorship?

Summary: We’ve long wondered why the FSF issued an award for an UEFI ‘secure boot’ facilitator working for Red Hat as even Linus Torvalds strongly objected to have Linux booting subjected to permission from Microsoft (he issued a very strongly worded objection with sexual metaphors) for no gain, not even security gain as ‘BootHole’ once again shows

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