Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?

[Chris Murphy]

On Jul 9, 2012, at 7:23 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>  All
> systems ship with verification disabled, and all the major motherboard
> manufacturers have indicated that secure boot will always stay an
> opt-in mechanism.

This is mystifying because it directly contradicts the Microsoft Windows 
hardware certification requirements, which require that to get the made for 
Windows 8 certification, the hardware must be UEFI, must implement Secure Boot, 
must have it enabled by default (except servers), and must have a Microsoft key 
included. It also requires a user chooseable option to disable Secure Boot on 
x86, but not ARM.


Chris Murphy