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maccardyesterday at 7:33 AM1 replyview on HN

If you’re downloading torrents and running code with elevated privileges that infects your PC, 99% of people are absolutely hosed at that point anyway. I don’t see th real distinction between being owned at an elevated system level and owned by disabling system secure boot for a home user


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butlikeyesterday at 2:40 PM

pwned at the bios level means the pwnage can survive a complete OS reinstall