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Linus Torvalds: Windows 8 Secure Boot Doesn’t Destroy Linux |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft’s new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. But Linux founder Linus Torvalds believes that the complaints are overblown. The bigger issue, he says, is that Secure Boot can be hacked.
Microsoft has set up a system in which encryption keys are needed to secure communication between the operating system and the machine’s firmware, the embedded software that talks to its hardware. “The real problem, I feel, is that clever hackers will bypass the whole key issue,” Toralds tells ZDNet.
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