Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) because I get the feeling that not a lot of people have actually
been testing this, because "turn off secure boot" is such a universal
thing when people boot Linux.
thing when people boot Linux.
So it's really the whole claim that distributions have been running for this for the last five years that I wonder about, and how often people end up being told: "just disable secure boot":. Maybe those people don't boot with EFI secure mode, but if so that just shows that this whole "hardening" is just security theater.
"hardening" is just security theater.
Linus
Linus
Linus
thing when people boot Linux.
So it's really the whole claim that distributions have been running for this for the last five years that I wonder about, and how often people end up being told: "just disable secure boot":. Maybe those people don't boot with EFI secure mode, but if so that just shows that this whole "hardening" is just security theater.
"hardening" is just security theater.
Linus
Linus
Linus