You are correct, "never" is far too long to quantify. I stand corrected.
Secure by default because --Big Brother says that it is secure" is tantamount to loss of individuality and personal freedom.-- Perhaps -- Secure by means of openly auditable and verifiable security trace would be better?-- "Big Brother" is not always an answer. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Andrew Goodbody <[email protected]>wrote: > On 03/01/13 23:23, gary sheppard wrote: > >> Numerous security experts have already said it is anything but secure, >> and it will never be secure. They have only said this quietly, and that >> "voice" has been minimalized, while "PROGRESS" is shouted to the >> heavens. Hey, look at android and how phone makers "lock" it down. Does >> it stay locked? No! Come on people, put your heads out of... ;) >> >> Gary >> > > Security is not an absolute. It is a tradeoff against the time needed to > overcome it. Secure Boot is more secure than no security. coreboot offers > no security. coreboot can never be "the Solution to the Secure Boot Fiasco" > until it can offer better security than Secure Boot. > > Yes there may be breaks for early implementations of Secure Boot but > anyone predicting that it can never be fixed is a very brave person. Never > is a long time. Remember, fixed does not mean perfect. Fixed just means > takes longer to overcome than anyone cares to invest in it. > > Sorry but "this will be broken because everything before it has been > broken" is not a credible critique; that is the inductive fallacy. > > Andrew >
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