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