[Arm-netbook] EFI/UEFI bios question

Jean Flamelle

2017-10-03 00:22:58 UTC

Despite the negative press and the huge skepticism over their
posh brand and shell-shocking optimism in area people have been
cynical for a long while, they claim they've completely disabled Intel
ME as well as completed their coreboot port. Both of these have been
relatively recent developments, but I think it's not unreasonable to
say there is a correlation between these successes and the
endorsements they are getting from gnome and kde with their new phone
project. And, I'm sure these people would have <i>checked</i>.
That in mind, EOMA is still designed around portability,
hardware openness, and reparability (with importance expressed in
reverse order). x86 got torn apart to shreds at the last Blackhat as
far as I can tell. Libre linux on RISC is definitely going to be the
first 100% safe harbor for secure computing. It would be very nice if
the folks at Purism added a EOMA card slot at some point in the coming
future to their computers.
I doubt these Purism laptops would be any bit disappointing.

Post by Joseph Lira
Hello
I know this is an arm project, but honestly I didn't know where else to ask
this question without getting lynch, well hopefully I wont get lynch here
neither
So I'm in the market for a new laptop and I recently rediscovered the
finding for legbacore when if come to malware attacks
on UEFI,
http://www.legbacore.com/Research_files/HowManyMillionBIOSesWouldYouLikeToInfect_Whitepaper_v1.pdf
<http://www.legbacore.com/Research_files/HowManyMillionBIOSesWouldYouLikeToInfect_Whitepaper_v1.pdf>http://www.legbacore.com/Research.html
and how until today there seems to be no real solution to the problem as no
manufacture continues to support hardware through bios/firmware updates
after usually 1 year of purchasing a product, well Apple seems to be the
only one. And no I don't consider as a solution running old x200 with
coreboot or libreboot as this approach is not really practical for the
day-day user. Let face is who doesn't know someone like this
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cloudy+with+a+chance+of+meatballs+dad+computer&t=ffsb&ia=videos&iax=1&iai=2bTBVdumayw
Just one thing, please don't give me the libre speech about Intel ME, I get
it, I just don't want the replies to become a holy fight as to why I'm evil
or x person is evil, I want to understand better the situation and possibly
get some suggestions
So my questions are
1. Is my pre 2014 non uefi hardware more susceptible to vulnerabilities
than lets say a laptop that was bough last year that is no longer getting
bios updates?
2. Should I be concerned about running old hardware? If not is there
anything I can do to better protect my hardware and for the wise guy
unplugging the computer from the internet is not a solution LOL
3. If I run uefi with secure boot enabled with my own keys em I more
protected against having my system compromised?Remember this is not about
Intel ME
4. Em I better off buying a macbook vs pc? lets face it, both are
companies that are for profit and both have there own evils
5. Should I consider buying a librem laptop? Though I do think $1300 plus
is to much. Seems to me that they are closer to have coreboot and disabling
ME on there laptops than anyone else
6. Is there hope for the new AMD ryzen cpu at delivering what is required
to port it to coreboot? Should I wait for it?
7. A little of topic but is PureOS from purism any good at doing what it
promises? Or are there other distro better?
thank you in advance to anyone who replies, links and articles are welcome
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