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Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack::UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I want my computer to run an open-source BIOS/UEFI but the set of systems supported by projects like Libreboot is unfortunately rather limited.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why is it so limmitted? Whats the bottleneck?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Each board has to be added manually, I presume they all have intricacies around initialising hardware and it seems most of that is kept in binary blobs and I don't really understand I just wish it was like openwrt and worked anywhere

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