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China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    https://libreboot.org/

    Or use this…

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    And you could trust them all!

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  • [–] 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

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