this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2025

241 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

technology@lemmy.world

89,574 readers

13,839 active

2,408 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago

moderators

L3s@lemmy.world

enu@lemmy.world

technopagan@lemmy.world

L4s@lemmy.world

L3s@hackingne.ws

China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 year ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] oce@jlai.lu 113 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Does that mean I will have more choice in which surveillance agency I want to be spied by?

hideshow 16 child comments

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe not, if Intel goes tits-up

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Ouch.

parent

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Implying Intel motherboards will ever support more than US govt approved technology now that they have a substantial holding in Intel

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] T156@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I think that's their point. You wouldn't have a choice again if Intel goes out of business.

parent

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

UEFI is a standard, not a product. You could make your own even

parent

hideshow 10 child comments

[–] the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://libreboot.org/

Or use this…

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] spacelord@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This doesn't support many boards.

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago*

True, but I really appreciate that someone is doing it. (It’s far beyond my capabilities…)

parent

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Tianocore open source uefi implementation exist for many years

parent

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So that just means UBIOS is explicitly for spying since UEFI is open source and a standard right?

parent

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

could

could in the same sense that i could check all software i use for bugs and malicious code. realistically, i can't, because it's way too much work.

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But you could work together with other people, and you could be many people that each checked his/her part for malicious code.

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

And you could trust them all!

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You could do it with enough people that there is several sections overlapping between unrelated people that it becomes infeasible even for state actors to compromise EVERY person attesting any one piece of software

parent

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Why would you do it with people you don't trust?

parent

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 year ago

There's no need to change mobo to have that, just install Temu app or similars.

parent