On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:07:42 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:26:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: >>>> >>>> However, I welcome the fact that attacks on Windows will be made more >>>> difficult, since that also means smaller botnets, fewer vulnerable >>>> computers etc. >>> >>> That's the problem: we don't have to care about Windows security, it's >>> not our business! That's a problem for the Windows users not for us. >> >> Can you guarantee that there isn't and will never be a BIOS rootkit that >> affects Linux? >> >> Can you guarantee that Windows botnets don't/won't attack Linux boxes? > > Tom, that's irrelevant! > > I can cope with a linux malware but I can't cope with a third-party > company disallowing me from booting _my own_ systems and I can't see any > benefit in helping nor defending such restrictive position. > > To be sincere, I prefer my linux (or windows) computer got infected > because of _my failure_ that being at the orders of a _third party_ :-/
It's not irrelevant. Irrespective of Linux using or not using Secure Boot, I want Microsoft to take every measure the it can take to reduce the number of compromised Windows boxes and therefore reduce the number of attacks on my Linux boxes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sw92dvfztktxypsahdg6zgae_2vtzzmgdwe2dzuahs...@mail.gmail.com
