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

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658 points transpute | 3 comments | 06 May 23 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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bb88 ◴[06 May 23 22:32 UTC] No.35845924[source]▶
Remember when the CIA hacked the Senate? No?

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence...

I'm pretty sure a lot of lawmakers still take this shit seriously.

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1. Spooky23 ◴[06 May 23 23:05 UTC] No.35846169{3}[source]▶
Maybe some of them, in committee roles.

The weak link is the campaigns.

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2. __d ◴[07 May 23 01:22 UTC] No.35846960[source]▶
The weak link is the voters.

We continue to elect charismatic fools (and sometimes charismatic criminals) because we're charmed, or scared, or bewildered, or just too damned tired to care.

Until that stops, there's really no justification for expecting anything rational to come from our leadership.

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3. fuzzfactor ◴[07 May 23 08:07 UTC] No.35849037[source]▶
Not all that charismatic, more like empty social climbers.

Especially the unethical and downright criminals, who put all their effort into putting on a fake legitimate facade.