From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 08:41:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94659106566B for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:41:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2355D8FC14 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eeke49 with SMTP id e49so131772eek.13 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:41:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=j9mFVnZV5MKu+kaJKZK0NA6s7KgmN3JuvwWPqefwRso=; b=DGlIIqp0m3Yh8PBZHFcBedkdLeft8D5jPHOeFoSzXU/uvSKfmuvC2XUYPVnztqgnR+ ypd2lbUvGka5GEIplPvnGz7n/Mu0AEFRZn9ZatBRYPcKnhMExq493UYzS4r59FXwja2U AH1bqRTYr9JDj01JxkZcwfoJsKshS1WkmKLBZuVT31/1MIli+lNnQErFWM4N3ivDMUpJ 4B2whPmkVh86AGl2hH6FzRqVpgZA/b/TvtUq/LDoGwnB76RLCm4Ku1BkoLPfBZZk5CWx ikTiRDHxJym9lKvsi6BZg6hg0YHvtuVcYuqwtv2ChK9SI8BccE+3AZyacgTEeXWkHC3A gumg== Received: by 10.14.95.72 with SMTP id o48mr729141eef.229.1339058467138; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p41sm8283746eef.5.2012.06.07.01.41.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FD06921.7020903@my.gd> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:41:05 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20120605201900.GB60388@hs1.VERBENA> In-Reply-To: <20120605201900.GB60388@hs1.VERBENA> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkNm34jyOQPnJo3uRMS9xpnQ85SslmeG9GmVuuWUbam3vC7byqA/Anj9BUZMdjH7Mb3CHwE Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:41:08 -0000 On 6/5/12 10:19 PM, Colin Barnabas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:19:26AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries >> http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ >> >> This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. >> >> Kurt >> > History show us that _everything_ will eventually run *nix. Take a > look at the Sony PS3 debacle. After Sony yanked support for > installing other OS's, the community ripped apart their > hypervisor in a matter of months. If these boot keys do gain any > momentum, sooner than later the community with poke holes in the > system. > This, however, raises the problem of the legality of it. George HOTZ was sued by Sony for releasing the master key. While Anonymous responded very aggressively (and while I do not generally condone their actions, this one I can both understand and support), in the end the consensus reached was that Geohotz agreed to not work on bypassing the PS3's protections anymore.