UEFI

From Techrights

Secure Boot, UEFI, or "Restricted Boot" as the FSF calls it, is a threat to computing freedom. It was covered in the following posts.

Contents 1 2013 1.1 May 1.2 April 1.3 March 1.4 February 1.5 January 2 2012 2.1 December 2.2 November 2.3 October 2.4 September 2.5 August 2.6 July 2.7 June

[edit] 2013

[edit] May

• UEFI Restricted Boot Good for Microsoft Agenda, Not for Security
• Prominent GNU/Linux/KDE Developer Jonathan Riddell Complains About UEFI Restricted Boot, Calling it “a giant Microsoft conspiracy to make installing Linux more faffy than it already is.”
• Debian Should Consider Adding Weight to Antitrust Complaint Over Microsoft’s Restricted Boot Tactics, Wheezy Cannot Boot on New Hardware
• Despite Vista 8 Failing in the Market, GNU/Linux Slow to Capitalise Due in Part to Microsoft’s UEFI Tricks

[edit] April

• Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Delays GNU/Linux Releases, Causes Many Issues for Windows ‘Refugees’
• UEFI Restricted Boot No Longer Valid for Security, Keys Leaked

[edit] March

• UEFI Continues to be a Headache for GNU/Linux Users
• Awareness of UEFI Restricted Boot Injustice Raised
• European Commission Finally Receives Complaint About Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Scheme
• Why Samsung Hardware With UEFI Boot Gets Bricked by Linux
• UEFI War on Linux: Not as Simple as Disabling Restricted (‘Secure’) Boot
• Microsoft Control Over Users
• Microsoft Tax Goes Deeper Into Hardware While Microsoft Pays No Tax
• FreeBSD Makes UEFI Mistake
• UEFI Restricted Boot: Torvalds Asks Developers Not to “Please Microsoft by Doing Idiotic Crap Approach”, Petition Set Up to Nail Microsoft for This Antitrust Abuse

[edit] February

• Torvalds Curses Over UEFI Stupidity, Gets Upset at Red Hat
• ZaReason Criticises Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Practices
• Ubuntu Release Cycles Controlled by Microsoft UEFI Restricted Boot
• UEFI Disasters Are Microsoft’s Fault, Stop Blaming Linux or Samsung
• Advertising and Legitimising Microsoft Control of Linux
• FAT is Free (Gratis) as Long as You Serve Microsoft’s Agenda
• Former Novell Employees in Microsoft’s Fight Against GNU/Linux Adoption
• Complain About — Don’t Work Around — Microsoft’s Abusive UEFI Scheme
• Adventures in UEFI Mischief and Selective Criticism of Google
• Ignore the Spin: Microsoft’s UEFI Programme Still Bricking Laptops

[edit] January

• New Fedora Suffers From UEFI While Desktops Suffer Steep Decline and Sales Drop
• Vista 8 Worse Than Vista, So Microsoft Must Block Competition to Save Windows
• 2013: The Age of Linux-Hostile PCs
• Free Software Foundation (FSF) Seeks Funds to Help Those Who Cannot Use GNU and Linux on New PCs Due to UEFI
• Latest Case of Microsoft Using Hardware Companies to Block GNU/Linux Coincides With Denying Previous Such Case
• Microsoft’s Anticompetitive Attack on GNU/Linux Booting is Bricking Laptops

[edit] 2012

[edit] December

• Vista 8 Fails This Xmas, UEFI Blocks GNU and Linux While Microsoft Tries Collecting in China, Stopping Sales of Open PCs
• Vista 8 Continues to Fail, But Succeeds at Suppressing GNU and Linux Installs
• Supporting UEFI in 2012 is Like Supporting OOXML in 2007
• Guest Post: UEFI’s Effects on the User
• New Reports Show How Microsoft Rendered New Hardware Linux-hostile Out of the Box Using UEFI Demands

[edit] November

• UEFI Apologists Versus Germany’s Government Judgment on UEFI Insecurity
• Vista 8 Signals the End of Windows Domination; Microsoft Starts Lying (Fake Numbers), Block GNU/Linux
• New PCs Cannot Boot Linux Due to Microsoft Dirty Tricks
• Microsoft Proves Techrights Right by Screwing UEFI ‘Partners’
• Vista 8 is Not Selling, But Microsoft’s UEFI Scheme Blocks Linux Installations/Booting
• Garrett a Microsoft Apologist
• Ubuntu Decided to Stay With GPLv3 After Public Backlash

[edit] October

• Microsoft Can’t Understand Security (Lesson for UEFI Apologists)
• Linux Wins the Devices OS War, Microsoft Tries to Lock it Out With UEFI
• Microsoft Breaks the Web and Linux

[edit] September

• Ubuntu Acknowledges UEFI Mistake by Taking FSF Advice

[edit] August

• The Early Demise of Vista 8 and the Obsolescence of UEFI
• SUSE to Help Microsoft With UEFI Agenda
• Microsoft Cannot Defend UEFI

[edit] July

• Microsoft Corporation — Not Just Microsoft Windows — a SPAM Leader; UEFI Not the Answer
• Microsoft Dictatorship Divides and Conquers Linux With Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu
• Red Hat Does Not Want to Defend Its Position on UEFI
• Restricted Boot Arguably Fought Against by Linux, Not Just GNU
• UEFI Problems Addressed by Linux Developers, Not Distributions
• TechBytes Episode 69: Richard Stallman on ‘Secure’ Boot (UEFI), Coreboot, GRUB, and Boot Freedom
• UEFI Debate Rages on While New Workarounds and Advice Surface
• Debian Follows the FSF’s — Not Red Hat’s — Footsteps Regarding UEFI
• FSF and FSFE Both Speak Out Against UEFI; Ubuntu Drifts Away From FSF, Whereas Debian Comes Closer to FSF
• Features of Vista 8 Focused on Errors, Antifeatures
• Canonical and Red Hat Receive Negative Publicity Over Submissive UEFI Choices
• Coverage of the Free Software Foundation’s Response to UEFI
• The FSF Moves From Petition to Recommendations Regarding UEFI Fight

[edit] June

• With UEFI, Microsoft Assaults the General Public License (GPL) and Computing Freedom in General
• Answers to Microsoft’s UEFI Plot Summarised, More Pretence That Microsoft is ‘Open’
• Vista 8 Will Drive More OEMs to GNU/Linux
• FSF Says Microsoft’s Flagging of Its Site as ‘Gambling’ is Wrong; FSF’s Anti-UEFI Petition Grows Popular, Debian Joins
• Ubuntu and UEFI
• Red Hat Fails to Convince That UEFI is Tolerable, Uses ‘Security’ as Talking Point
• Red Hat Was Wrong About UEFI, Failed to Ask the Users
• Linus Torvalds Disputes Security of UEFI
• Red Hat Criticised for Advancing Microsoft’s UEFI Agenda
• Microsoft’s Monopolistic Abuses Continue as Red Hat and Fedora Tax Are Put in Place