Comment by kelseyfrog
5 hours ago
They shouldn't _have_ to do anything. The point is that no demands should be placed upon users.
Same problem with age gating. It's fine, as long as zero additional demands are placed upon users.
5 hours ago
They shouldn't _have_ to do anything. The point is that no demands should be placed upon users.
Same problem with age gating. It's fine, as long as zero additional demands are placed upon users.
Are the demands that users become experts in provider their own security against more advanced actors not significantly worse? The control part is unfortunate but the defaults should make it so users can focus on sharing pictures of cats without fear or need for advanced cyber security knowledge.
Freedom from the consequences of malware is more valuable than the low cost of turning SecureBoot off if you don’t want it.
We shouldn’t need the hassle of locks on our home and car doors, but we understand they are probably worthwhile for most people.
Do you lock your house or car and permanently handover the keys to some stranger, who you then have to depend on always to lock or unlock it for you?
No? I have locks on my house and car that I have the keys for. That an argument _for_ secure boot.
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What's the improved security argument for terminating VeraCrypt's account though? SB does have clear benefits but what is unclear is the motivation for the account termination.
What's the likelihood that this account ban provides zero security benefit to users and was instead a requirement from the gov because Veracrypt was too hard to crack/bypass.
Users who care enough to do so can enrol their own keys using the extremely well documented process to do that.
Users who don’t care about the runtime integrity of their machine can just turn it off.
Both options are so easy that you could’ve learned how to do them on your machine in the time that you spent posting misinformation in this thread.