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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft creates secure boot: “we should be able to run whatever we want on our hardware!”

Microsoft lets users install crowdstrike on their computer: “Microsoft shouldn’t let us run this on our hardware!”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Way to miss the nuance lol

What I’m saying is that if a system claims to rigorously validate code that runs in a particular sensitive domain (here, ring 0), it should actually rigorously validate code. This was a process failure at the end of the day.