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Saturday, September 12th, 2026, 4:08 pm

Matthew J Garrett Put secure-boot and shim in Linux and It’s Breaking Systems Again

Crossposted from Techrights

Fake security is already breaking systems running GNU/Linux

Ubuntu secure boot

More complexity means more problems. Newer code means more bugs (e.g. Rust rewrites).

Fake security means catastrophe for no actual gain/s.

As noted by several sites [1, 2], linking to a bug report, kneeling to Microsoft came at a high cost:

enhanced-secure-boot

TPM? Who asked for TPM in Linux? GAFAM? But who am I to even mention the principal culprits? I have degrees in computing, not in genetics.

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