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tosti 2 hours ago

Computers should abide by their owners. Any computer not doing that is broken.

ghighi7878 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Its a simple solution in law to enable. Force manufacturers to allow owners of computer to put any signing key in the BIOS.

We need this law. Once we have this law, consumers csn get maximum benefit of secure boot withiut losing contorl

cferry an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I make the analogy with a company, because on that front, ownership seems to matter a lot in the Western world. It's like it had to have unfaithful management appointed by another company they're a customer of, as a condition to use their products. Worse, said provider is also a provider for every other business, and their products are not interoperable. How long before courts jump in to prevent this and give back control to the business owner?

wat10000 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This gets tricky. If I click on a link intending to view a picture of a cat, but instead it installs ransomware, is that abiding by its owner or not? It did what I told it to do, but not at all what I wanted.

ghighi7878 an hour ago | parent [-]

We dont need to get philosophical here. You(the admin) can require you (the user) to input a password to signify to you(the admin) to install a ransomware when a link is clicked. That way no control is lost.

wat10000 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

What if the cat pictures are an app too? The computer can't require a password specifically for ransomware, just for software in general. The UI flow for cat pictures apps and ransomware will be identical.