Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open

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Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open
South Stoked User ID: 71508759 United States 08/13/2016 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open Microsoft quiet as researchers spot debug mode flaw that bypasses OS checks. Microsoft has inadvertently demonstrated the intrinsic security problem of including a universal backdoor in its software after it accidentally leaked its so-called "golden key"—which allows users to unlock any device that's supposedly protected by Secure Boot, such as phones and tablets. The key basically allows anyone to bypass the provisions Microsoft has put in place ostensibly to prevent malicious versions of Windows from being installed, on any device running Windows 8.1 and upwards with Secure Boot enabled. [link to arstechnica.com] AKA - The golden key that the FBI wants on all phones. This is why there should never be a universal back door on any device.

Anonymous Coward User ID: 69776762 United States 08/13/2016 11:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open Could this be the tweets snowden made the other day?
snark Forum Administrator User ID: 58829644 United States 08/13/2016 11:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open bump for more info this sounds pretty damn serious T For Texas, T For Tennessee! The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, because otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. There are times when something needs to be done, and yet we know that if we step up and do this needful thing, we will pay a heavy personal price. -C.S. Lewis
duFontaine. User ID: 29412599 United States 08/13/2016 12:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open Could this be the tweets snowden made the other day? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69776762 "Accept now that all you have seen from the day of your birth on the surface of the earth, to the present, are wonderful only because the finite mind of man is confused with fragments of evidence, that, from whatever direction we meet them, spring from an unreachable infinity." "There was a man who could create what could not be imagined. A temple so great you questioned if it was built with human hands. A man who built an idea into the greatest force the world has ever known. A world built from a single word. I care not for the folly of man but for the end of human contention."

Anonymous Coward User ID: 23717344 United States 08/13/2016 12:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open this may be a very good thing
South Stoked (OP) User ID: 71508759 United States 08/13/2016 12:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open this may be a very good thing Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23717344 its good for jailbreaks and such. But the real story here is that microsoft put this "golden key" backdoor in, in the first place.
. User ID: 72779009 United States 08/13/2016 01:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open . Well that's why I'm stinking with win7 until it's no longer supported them I'll go with some variant of Unix. Back doors Everywhere. .

Anonymous Coward User ID: 77373986 United States 06/10/2019 09:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open .
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70579890 Netherlands 06/10/2019 09:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open Now the big black hackers can pound your backdoor at impunity.
ThePaleOne traded his horse for a white van User ID: 76035098 Austria 06/10/2019 09:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open this may be a very good thing Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23717344 its good for jailbreaks and such. But the real story here is that microsoft put this "golden key" backdoor in, in the first place. Quoting: South Stoked Not Microsofts fault, they are required to build in backdoors for agencies, as are all others. At least they have the balls to "oops" leak it to show that any backdoor is a risk. Life is a 100% deadly sexually transmitted disease. Life is to short to be a slave, leave the plantation, go: [link to www.goingyourownway.com]
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