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mikhanoid2011-12-30 13:19:07
Law in IT
mikhanoid, 2011-12-30 13:19:07

Stupid question about laws and UEFI

I suffered here with Verified Boot in Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. And I even wanted to write a letter to our president about this (no, but who else? :), so that some law would have a record that all devices with technology similar to Secure Boot should allow the user to set their own keys and any kernels of any operating systems by regular means, directly by means of the BIOS (even if they draw sad faces at the same time about the fact that the download is not carried out with official keys, even if it requires a hardware switch; but it should not be so that it is impossible to change the OS ( as MS craves); and it should not be that the user, when abandoning the standard OS, completely loses protection and part of the functionality (as in Google BIOS)). But,

In this regard, the question is: in what legal terms can such a requirement be expressed? Well, or at least where to read the legal definitions for any such equipment? And in general, it would be nice to include smartphones with tablets under this article. I understand, of course, that this is all nonsense and is unlikely to be done, but it’s just interesting how all this should be written in legal language.

However, a letter to the president may well be justified, because now our national software platform is Linux, but how will this NPP work if all new consumer equipment is locked under Windows, Apple *OS or Google software?

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