Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:25:08 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries |
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:13:38AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Because Microsoft have indicated that they'd be taking a reactive > approach to blacklisting and because, so far, nobody has decided to > write the trivial proof of concept that demonstrates the problem.
Microsoft would take a severe hit both from a PR perspective, as well as incurring significant legal risks if they did that in certain jourisdictions --- in particular, I suspect in Europe, if Microsoft were to break the ability of Linux distributions from booting, it would be significantly frowned upon.
So Microsoft may have privately threatened this to certain Red Hat attendees (threats are cheap, but it's not obvious that they would necessarily follow through on this threat.
- Ted
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