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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: 0.255s | 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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lenkite ◴[06 May 23 23:43 UTC] No.35846440[source]▶
Any leaked, salacious stuff will just be termed as Russian disinformation.
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wsc981 ◴[07 May 23 02:37 UTC] No.35847363[source]▶
It worked several times before (Clinton email server, Hunter Biden laptop, various examples from other countries) so no reason why this argument would not work again.
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Entinel ◴[07 May 23 02:59 UTC] No.35847484[source]▶
It worked against Democrats because the Republican base does not care about facts and just need a reason, fact or fiction, to justify the outrage they are told to feel.
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1. specialist ◴[07 May 23 14:42 UTC] No.35852024[source]▶
Yes, but:

The most recent research suggests partisanship, esp negative partisanship, is rooted in identity. Which is to say facts, beliefs, positions are besides the point.

There have been many more recent follow ups, but the two books I read were Democracy for Realists by Achen and Bartels, and Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein.

As a recovering activist, this has been very hard for me to accept and adjust to. What hope is there if discourse and persuasion don't, can't work? I have no clue.

So I just focus on the work.

YMMV.