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posted by hubie on Friday January 20 2023, @09:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-person's-insecurity-is-another-person's-opportunity dept.

MSI accidentally disables Secure Boot on hundreds of its motherboards:

One of the latest MSI UEFI updates accidentally disabled Secure Boot technology on hundreds of its motherboards, reports Bleeping Computer. As a consequence, over 290 motherboards for AMD and Intel processors can run insecure operating systems, which can be harmful.

MSI's firmware update version 7C02v3C released on January 18, 2022, comes with Image Execution Policy set to 'Always Execute' by default, which allows the PC to boot an operating system that lacks proper signature by its developer. This means that a computer can boot an OS that may have been tampered with, which is an insecure policy as the operating system may be infected or have malicious intent.

The discovery was recently made by Polish security researcher named Dawid Potocki. The researcher noted that he contacted MSI, but did not receive any response, which essentially means that so far the motherboard maker has not fixed its Secure Boot.

See article for a list of motherboard models.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Thursday January 26 2023, @08:06PM (3 children)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday January 26 2023, @08:06PM (#1288775) Homepage Journal

    I firmly believe that if economics was taught in school the world could change for the much better.

    Perhaps it's my own ignorance, but it seems to me that there isn't a single economist in the world that another isn't calling him a gold-studded liar. If there were any validity to that field, how in the hell did the "trickle down theory" happen, when it should be obvious to anyone that wealth flows up? Wealth is created by engineers, farmers, and factory workers, not CEOs and board members. The working class earns the rich's money for them.

    Maybe they should teach simple arithmetic, like in 1965 the federal minimum wage was $1.50 and a McDonald's hamburger was 15¢, today that wage is $7.50 and that burger is $2.49. That formula says the minimum wage should be $24.90.

    Or history. In 1940, the lowest federal tax bracket was over four times the median income.

    The rich are robbing us blind and we're too stupid to stop them.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday January 26 2023, @08:43PM (2 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday January 26 2023, @08:43PM (#1288791)

    You're agreeing with me more than you know, and thank you. I agree with you. That's what I was trying to say- keeping people ignorant of economics is why the disparity is happening. If everyone learned a lot of economics in school, "trickle down economics" would have trickled down the toilet drain.

    It's very easy to commingle finance and economics. People much more easily think of money. Economics is more conceptual. Like you alluded to, I prefer to think about productivity. But then you equate it with money, and the greedy get into the stream.

    Strong capitalists will argue that greed, the love of money, drives increased productivity, investment, marketing, sales, commerce, ...

    A huge factor is rent and land prices in general. Landowners are getting richer and richer, and working people paying higher and higher rents and mortgages. It's off the charts in far too many areas.

    I don't know how to fix it. Like most things, I don't think it's a black or white thing, but I'm very sure if people learned economics from an early age, they'd make better decisions with their time and money, and we'd have less disparity.

    All that said, there are many premises on which many economic theories are based. An example: 2 gasoline sales places, very close to each other, one has a higher price, yet just as busy as the lower-priced one. Sure, there are myriad factors, but it breaks the "law of supply and demand". So you go deeper into economics, learn about elasticity and many other factors. Again, I think if it was taught much more, there would be more people who are expert, better understanding, more thought would go into laws, policies, taxes, interest rates, caps on interest, individual decisions. It's not a panacea, and I don't think there is one, just that things could be much better if everyone had better understanding of the machine of economics.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Saturday January 28 2023, @07:30PM (1 child)

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday January 28 2023, @07:30PM (#1289110) Homepage Journal

      I don't know how to fix it.

      We can't. Congress could, but won't. All they would have to do would be to raise the minimum wage to 1965's buying power when the federal minimum was $1.50 and a McDonald's hamburger was 15¢ (24.90 per hour) and then tie the minimum wage to inflation, like Social Security is.

      As to the gas station guys, the higher priced, more busy one may be easy to get in and out of, the other not. Or it could be like the two gas stations down the street. The cheap one is run by assholes, and who wants to enrich assholes? If the prices were comparable he wouldn't get any business at all. I won't get gas there.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Saturday January 28 2023, @09:30PM

        by RS3 (6367) on Saturday January 28 2023, @09:30PM (#1289127)

        Absolutely agree on all points.

        As to gasoline sales, yes, there are many many factors. My point was that (too) much economic theory is based on simple supply-demand curves, as if price was the only factor.

        When things like 2008's "too big to fail" happen, it lets you know how little anyone is minding the store (the entire economy).

        I always use one of the gas price watching websites. I'm at least trying to work the economic system! :)

        A few years ago I went into a small convenience store / gasoline retailer, plunked down my $50, and the gentleman said "whew, you just made it. I have to watch the gas station down the street and change our price whenever they change theirs, and they just raised it $0.15 / gallon".