alt Hacker NewsI don't know about executable signing, but in the embedded world SecureBoot is also used to serve the customer; id est provide guarantees to the customer that the firmware of the device they receive has not been tampered with at some point in the supply chain.
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Computers should abide by their owners. Any computer not doing that is broken.
> id est provide guarantees to the customer that the firmware of the device they receive has not been tampered with
The firmware of the device being a binary blob for the most part... Not like I trust it to begin with.
Whereas my open source Linux distribution requires me to disables SecureBoot.
What a world.
It's to serve the regulators. The Radio Equipment Directive essentially requires the use of secure boot fir new devices.
well, unless govt tells MS to tamper it
And what if that customer wants to run their own firmware, ie after the manufacturer goes out of business? "Security" in this case conveniently prevente that.