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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now (www.welivesecurity.com)
submitted 2 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1263218/microsofts-secure-boot-has-been-broken-for-a-decade-and-no-one-noticed-until-now

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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

On some systems you can clear all secure boot keys, including Microsoft's, then provision your own and sign your bootloader or kernel with it. Windows cannot boot from such systems.