The UEFI 9/11 is 3 Days Away

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2025

A week ago:

Series index:

1. The UEFI 9/11 - Part I - Introduction to Impending Catastrophe (Microsoft Preventing People From Booting Non-Windows Systems)
2. The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics
3. The UEFI 9/11 - Part III - Chaos is Scheduled to Happen Second Thursday of September (No Matter What the Microsofters Tell You)
4. The UEFI 9/11 - Part IV - External Interference
5. The UEFI 9/11 - Part V - This is Not a Drill (Disable "SecureBoot" Now)
6. The UEFI 9/11 - Part VI - This Serious Harm Was Planned for Over a Decade, Not an Accident or Merely Some Misfortune
7. The UEFI 9/11 - Part VII - This Coming Week Many PCs Will Refuse to Boot "Linux" (Because of Microsoft's Expired Certificate)
8. The UEFI 9/11 - Part VIII - Denial of Service and Selling Us WSL (Windows) Instead of "Risky" (Prone by Breakage by Microsoft) GNU/Linux

Nobody denies that bad things will happen. Not even Microsoft staff.

"I wonder how many people were dumb enough or cornered enough to activate restricted boot on old computers for GNU/Linux," an associate said.

So turn off "SecureBoot"; it is a time bomb and it never solved any security problems, it is just creating problems where none existed before. █