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Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security

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658 points transpute | 1 comments | 06 May 23 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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Animats ◴[06 May 23 19:45 UTC] No.35844753[source]▶
There's an upside to this. It can be used politically as an argument against backdoors for "lawful access"[1] to encrypted data.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission/lawful-access

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voidfunc ◴[06 May 23 19:52 UTC] No.35844809[source]▶
The argument doesn't matter because the federal government and politicians don't give a shit about facts
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hilbert42 ◴[06 May 23 20:00 UTC] No.35844873[source]▶
Until their PCs get hacked and their medical and psychiatrists' notes about them become front page news.
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TheRealPomax ◴[06 May 23 20:02 UTC] No.35844896[source]▶
Sorry, what? This literally happened, THIS YEAR, and not a single one cared beyond saying "oh no, this is terrible, if only there was something we could have done!"

https://apnews.com/article/congress-data-breach-hack-identit...

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hilbert42 ◴[06 May 23 20:45 UTC] No.35845219[source]▶
Right. There'll be more, eventually something truly salacious will turn up. When it does keep well away from fans.
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1. joering2 ◴[06 May 23 21:02 UTC] No.35845346[source]▶
If "something truly salacious will turn up", I would bet the source politician will deny it and would want the whole thing to be forgotten as quickly as possible, not to work on a bill against it to pass it bipartisan, because he was an embarrassment case of a leak.

Source: observing last 25 years of US politics.