A Dozen Observations About "UEFI 9/11" Deflections

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 11, 2025,
updated Sep 11, 2025

As noted earlier [1, 2], we can expect a lot of spin in the coming days/weeks.

What we are expected to see, tentatively:

• widespread censorship or demotion of reports (pretending it's just some personal issue or due to a user's mistake)
• Microsoft fault- or blame-shifting
• OEM blame-shifting
• efforts to blame users for not using Windows
• Microsoft will eventually acknowledge reports but find some hardware company to use as a scapegoat, or to pretend the issue is rare and limited
• deny there is an issue at all (or say it's not a big deal because people can follow some steps found online after getting all stressed and finding themselves unable to go online at all!)
• it is not the case that users reboot every day, so over time we'll see how widespread it really is
• impact spread out over period of time, so a PR opportunity (f)or damage mitigation (e.g. trying to change the subject, try to make the issue seem like "old news")
• with the principal culprit "away" on a phony holiday, pretending that it won't be widespread, there will be no tree to bark at (or up)
• OEMs staying mum (silence) or banning users who ask about this in forums
• suggestions made that are impractical, e.g. system clock changes or battery removal; that just won't work in the age of NTP and batteries soldered into everything
• what else?

We'll soon start a new series, right after the first^*; the two series help demonstrate the seriousness of the root cause [pardon the pun] of the SLAPP; or twisted another way, it's a case of RMS was right (but not FSF in general because of that misguided award). An associate has said: "Correct. FSF made a big mistake." █

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^* 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
9. The UEFI 9/11 - Part IX - Shunning Old Computers (in 2023 the Certificate Was Updated/Overridden, Underlying Aim May Be Herding/Forcing People to Get TPM and Other 'Novel' Restrictions)