Microsoft, Microsofters and 'Secure' Boot Shills Already Storming the LWN Report About Expiring Certificate, Shooting the Messenger
We're seeing loads of comments there from the very same people who pushed 'secure' boot into Linux (some attacking the messenger, of course!).
Heck, the first comment is a MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE:
![Continuing running shim with known security bugs makes it [kinda] pointless to have secure boot turned on](/i/2025/07/bluca-troll.png)
They do not deny that it's an issue. They just make all sorts of excuses and attack the messenger (in social control media, we saved/archived evidence). LWN has clearly stuck a nerve.
The mobbing tactics from Microsoft are yet more evidence of the abuse, not evidence of the media getting the facts wrong. They buy LWN subscriptions to brigade the comments before anyone else can participate.
If that's not bad enough, they also spend $500,000 on SLAPPs against 'secure boot' critics and their spouses [1, 2].