[conspire] (forw) Re: [Felton LUG] Oh boy, this doesn't look good...

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Jul 30 08:54:20 PDT 2020


Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):

> I'm sorry, but it is not logical.

Having a system whose bootchain cannot be messed with by anyone but me
has obvious security advantages.  This shouldn't be a difficult concept.

> I have had, BTW, libre boot systems where the boot partition is
> encrypted and I am functionally locked out of that computer because only
> Leah Rowe can decrypt the fucking thing with grub at the boot loader in
> the flash of the bios unable to decrypt the hard drives.

So, don't use bad designs that you don't control.





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