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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: 0.286s | 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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1. hduebdivd ◴[07 May 23 12:34 UTC] No.35850810[source]▶
politicians know this can be abused, just like nsa, fbi or even local sheriff's... but they are glad because they're ones in position to abuse it.

my tinfoil hatted guess? china this past week had talks with FR, RU, BR and others. they probably got 3+ favors in exchange of this leak.

Or, someone wanted to blacklist someone else's key without a public name and included it in this leak. i wouldn't doubt MSI, intel and safe-pc-for-criminals-r-us keys happen to be present there.