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Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] onlinepersona -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Amazing. It was published on github, which means it's available forever (anything deleted on github that was forked is still available from the fork).

Btw

The Platform Key, or PK: This provides the root-of-trust anchor in the form of a cryptographic key embedded into the system firmware. It establishes the trust between the platform hardware and all firmware that runs on it.

Does that mean we aren't actually fucked? Can the platform key be updated or is read-only?

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