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Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware

11 points • by p4p1 • today at 9:22 AM • 1 comment • view on HN

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p4p1 • today at 9:22 AM

Secure Boot’s MOK enrollment lets you enroll arbitrary keys without a BIOS password. By borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim from a package like ubuntu’s shim-signed, you can boot any OS on a corporate machine that has 3rd party certificates installed — which most do.