Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:49:25AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> When the goal is to secure Linux I don't see how any of this helps.
> Windows 8 compromises are already available so if we turn most of these
> arguments around I am certain clever attackers can go through windows to
> run compromised kernel on a linux system, at least as easily as the
> reverse.

And if any of them are used to attack Linux, we'd expect those versions 
of Windows to be blacklisted.

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