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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 Subsentient on Saturday October 31 2015, @02:04AM
Nowadays I just don't. I care more about locked bootloaders, operating system restrictions, and limitations on consumer choice.
I'll be happy with ARM, MIPS, x86, whatever, as long as I can do what I want with the thing.
Now with Windows 10's UEFI updates, it's becoming like with smartphones that are boot locked and will only run the OS they ship with, or updates thereof.
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