Posted by hornedhob 1/27/2026
I can relate to people being rather hostile to the idea of boot verification, because this is a process that is really low level and also something that we as computer experts rarely interact with more deeply. The most challenging part of installing a Linux system is always installing the boot loader, potentially setting up an UEFI partition. These are things that I don't do everyday and that I don't have deep knowledge in. And if things go wrong, then it is extra hard to fix things. Secure boot makes it even harder to understand what is going on. There is a general lack of knowledge of what is happening behind the scenes and it is really hard to learn about it. I feel that the people behind this project should really keep XKCD 2501 in mind when talking to their fellow computer experts.
Yeah it could be. Could. But it also could be used for limiting freedoms with general purpose computing. Guess what is it going to be?
> hostile to the idea of boot verification, because this is a process that is really low level
Not because of that.
Because it's only me who gets to decide what runs on my computer, not someone else. I don't need LP's permission to run binaries.
I mean, in theory, the idea is great. But it WILL be misused by greedy fucks.
So it's going to be someone disabling this for end users.
If there’s a path to profitability, great for them, and for me too; because it means it won’t be available at no charge.
These kind of technologies are forced on users.
Why not adopt seL4 like everybody else who is not outright delusional[0][1]?
I can see like a 100 ways this can make computing worse for 99% people and like 1-2 scenarios where it might actually be useful.
Like if the politicians pushing for chat control/on device scanning of data come knocking again and actually go through (they can try infinitely) tech like this will really be "useful". Oops your device cannot produce a valid attestation, no internet for you.