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UEFI 'Secure Boot' Once Again Bricking PCs and Fake Security Models Are Perishing in Geminispace

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 17, 2024,

updated Jul 19, 2024

Earlier today: This Should Certainly be Illegal, But the Person Who Helped Microsoft Do This is Still Attacking the Critics of It

Not secure; Won't even boot

Which morons created this monster of a model anyway? Agents of monopoly and corporate poachers.

YESTERDAY we said that Let's Encrypt had been diminished to just 119 known (to Lupa) Gemini capsules and today it's down to 116, representing just 4.2% of the whole. For context, to quote Lupa's statistics page: "There are 3880 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 2771 of them."

Let's Encrypt has just fallen again. 4.2%. It was 4.3% just a day ago. It now says: "2512 (90.7 %) capsules are self-signed, 116 (4.2 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 143 (5.2 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one)."

We hope to see Let's Encrypt entirely extinct in Gemini one day. Like UEFI 'secure' boot, it boils down to fake security - albeit fake security they want to hammer down on all of us by shipping things in certain ways or making browsers that hate anything but their maker and trust nothing but a cartel (CA cluster). Apropos UEFI 'secure' boot, it's once again 'bricking' PCs, needlessly and probably inevitably. It keeps happening. UEFI 'Secure Boot' (or 'secure' boot) is about breaking Linux and making it not bootable [1, 2]. It makes computing less reliable and more prone to critical issues, such as data loss, 'bricking' etc. As someone put it in the comment: "Excuse me while I try in vain to find my "shocked" face concerning this matter....which like most matters is just a matter of time."

GAFAM is attacking computing and - by extension - computer users/owners. IBM also plays a role in the "War on General-Purpose Computing". Be wary of whatever they label "security"; they speak only of their own. █