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

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658 points transpute | 2 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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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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LadyCailin ◴[06 May 23 20:32 UTC] No.35845131[source]▶
Alternatively: Stuff is going to be leaked anyways, so we might as well also make it easy for law enforcement to do their job.
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Guthur ◴[06 May 23 20:40 UTC] No.35845190[source]▶
Their job is not what you think it is.

It's to maintain the status quo no matter how corrupt or abhorrent it is. The word enforcement says it all.

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nvy ◴[06 May 23 20:45 UTC] No.35845221[source]▶
Of course that's their job. The police force is not designed to be a vehicle for social change nor for justice.

The way the system is supposed to work is that engaged citizenry actively overhaul unjust laws and apparatuses, and the police then enforce those new laws.

Unfortunately we have abysmally low civic engagement in most of the western world which leads to the mess we are currently in.

I like to make fun of the French as much as anyone else but I really respect and admire the French people's propensity for protest and to stand up for what they believe. That's advanced citizenship in action.

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1. csomar ◴[07 May 23 03:59 UTC] No.35847794[source]▶
> I like to make fun of the French as much as anyone else but I really respect and admire the French people's propensity for protest and to stand up for what they believe. That's advanced citizenship in action.

You'll be disappointed then. The French are protesting for benefits and not for social change. Aka, they are not better than the police they are engaging with.

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2. nvy ◴[07 May 23 07:08 UTC] No.35848730[source]▶
>You'll be disappointed then. The French are protesting for benefit

What's wrong with that?