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Windows 10 May Make the Secure Boot Lock Out a Reality for Alternate OSs

posted by martyb on Saturday May 30 2015, @01:52AM   
from the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish dept.

ticho writes with an Ars Technica report:

At its WinHEC hardware conference in Shenzhen, China, Microsoft talked about the hardware requirements for Windows 10. The precise final specs are not available yet, so all this is somewhat subject to change, but right now, Microsoft says that the switch to allow Secure Boot to be turned off is now optional. Hardware can be Designed for Windows 10 and can offer no way to opt out of the Secure Boot lock down.

The presentation is silent on whether OEMs can or should provide support for adding custom certificates.

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• Its a dupe: Its a dupe: (Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:12AM

  by frojack (1554) on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:12AM (#189968) Journal

  https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/03/21/1333210 [soylentnews.org]

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  No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.

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• Re:Its a dupe: Re:Its a dupe: (Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:18AM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:18AM (#189970) Journal

  I could have sword

  I am firmly of the opinion that we should _not_ let frojack have sword, but apparently he's correct on the the dupe.

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  • Re:Its a dupe: (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @11:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @11:36AM (#190067)

    Sword of Typocles hangs above all our keyboards.

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