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A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it (www.techspot.com)
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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 63 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Good.

We always knew it was there. They sold their soul to the NSA decades ago.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-the-nsa-stopped-trying-to-prevent-the-spread-of-encryption-and-decided-to-just-break-it-instead-4569969/

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I remember the day I saw the "Intel! Inside" commercial and the logo, and I thought, I don't fucking trust this company.

Yeah no shit Intel inside, you've got every fucking three letter agency inside.

I knew it was over the day they introduced UEFI and TPM.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wait what's wrong with UEFI? My computer uses it, although I have an AMD chipset if that makes a difference...

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 29 minutes 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...

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 4 points 6 hours ago

So what are you using and recommending?