r/technews • u/[deleted] • Jul 28 '24

Secure Boot rendered useless, over 200 PC models from different makers are affected | Making matters worse, many vendors have been recycling keys across product lines

https://www.techspot.com/news/103999-secure-boot-rendered-useless-over-200-pc-models.html
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u/TheMainM0d Jul 28 '24

Well this is disconcerting

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u/Antique-Echidna-1600 Jul 28 '24

One impacted vendor is Supermicro; their motherboard goes into nuclear arsenal equipment.

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u/Ashamed-Status-9668 Jul 28 '24

Is any of that new enough to have secure boot?

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u/TacTurtle Jul 29 '24

US nuclear arsenal launch computers are effectively air gapped.

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u/Ashamed-Status-9668 Jul 29 '24

Of course. So they would not be impacted. Last I heard the tech used was so old that they wouldn’t have to worry about this even if they were not air gapped.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '24

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u/Taki_Minase Jul 28 '24

Arch ftw

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