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Joanna Rutkowska's blog points to recent paper on a survey of the various problems and attacks presented against the x86 platform over the last 10 years. The paper does not present new exploits but does cover: the BIOS (UEFI) and booting; peripherals; the Intel Management Engine; and several other aspects of x86 insecurity. Some of the problems appear insurmountable as described.
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(Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday October 30 2015, @11:42PM
ARM mostly uses the same UEFI base (TianoCore) as x86 for anything that isn't embedded.
I'm not kidding when I can say with a straight face it was an improvement in increasing the "just works" factor over u-boot. Unfortunately, TianoCore isn't GPL, so its not required that vendors post their firmware source.
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