> The UEFI specification itself does not require that there be any
> mechanism to disable this functionality.
But I believe the NIST mandate for BIOS-secured systems does have this
requirement.
An alterantive to UEFI is Linux-based CoreBoot. It's free, whereas all
UEFI implementations are commercial. Ask you OEM to offer this as an
alternative.
http://www.coreboot.org/
In addition to Microsoft's upcoming Win8 devices, Apple has been locking
down EFI-based hardware for a while. Mac Mini Server is EFI-based, and
Apple has configured it's hardware to only permit Mac OS X Server as the
only OS. So MSFT is conceding to unlock X86 boxes, but APPL doesn't yet
concede this, AFAIK. I think MSFT is just emulating APPL, and copying
how they used EFI to lock down their own hardware. :-(
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