• forestbeasts@pawb.social
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    5 hours ago

    Mostly the “secure boot” crap, which you can turn off (it’s more a “running your own software on the machine” risk than a privacy risk). UEFI in general isn’t too bad (way way WAY more complex than BIOS though) and managing EFI bootloaders is so much less hassle than with BIOS boot!

    – Frost

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      4 hours ago

      All I know about secure boot is that if I make a custom ISO and try booting from it, I would need to create a signature first, register it in my UEFI, and use it to sign the ISO.

      Seems like a pain in the ass, but then again if I want to play with a custom ISO I can do so in a VM, and that seems kind of worth it to prevent someone from booting whateverthefuck if they somehow gain physical access to my computer…