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Comment by blueflow

1 month ago

... and it will also refuse to boot if it has been modified by the user.

Preventing this was the reason we had free software in the first place.

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ahepp  1 month ago

Increasing security for the system owner will necessarily decrease the ability of others to modify the system in ways the owner doesn't like.

  • blueflow  1 month ago

    With "owner" not being the legal owner, but Microsoft.

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