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Cc: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware
 of?
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On 05/06/2012 19:27, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> I believe that should be unnecessary.  It would only be a matter of
> time before someone breaks the M$ layer of poop that is supposed to
> prevent folks from booting other OSes other than Window$.  They hit
> the panic button too soon IMHO.

Press Delete/F1 during boot, select Advanced -> Trusted Computing. 
Change TCG/TPM Support to "No".  But according to Cory Doctorow, that's 
far too finicky and highly technical 
(http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html)!

By the way it's not Microsoft's stuff people would have to break, but 
UEFI. I think secure boot actually makes sense, but preventing users 
disabling it or installing their own keys on ARM platforms is totally wrong.

-- 
Bruce Cran