Though most of you already certainly know about it, Linus Torvalds has expressed his point of view about that story: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-on-windows-8-uefi-and-f...
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On 06/12/2012 01:46 PM, Denis Arnaud wrote:
Though most of you already certainly know about it, Linus Torvalds has expressed his point of view about that story: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-on-windows-8-uefi-and-f...
Yes, though he's wrong on some facts. Not least, the number of keys that have stayed private is all of them. But if you take that as him not knowing the process, which is reasonable, and assume that he instead means "how many legitimate keys have been used to sign malware", the answer so far seems to be in the range of "somewhere near three". And the keys we're talking about are everything in winqual, which I'm told (and back of envelope estimates would seem to support) is on the order of ten thousand vendors.
Aside Linus being incorrect, the rest of the article is also full of incorrect information and supposition. With this in mind, I wish you wouldn't link a presss articles which are filled with incorrect information and rumors. These people get paid based on the number of times the link gets clicked, and circulating their urls directly incentivises the production of this shoddy excuse for journalism.
Hmm. Sorry, that is the only article I found on the subject (having searched for "Linus Torvalds Fedora" on search engines). There was also a summary on LinuxToday, which then linked the same ZDnet article.
2012/6/12 Peter Jones pjones@redhat.com
Aside Linus being incorrect, the rest of the article is also full of incorrect information and supposition. With this in mind, I wish you wouldn't link a press articles which are filled with incorrect information and rumors. These people get paid based on the number of times the link gets clicked, and circulating their urls directly incentivises the production of this shoddy excuse for journalism.
And, IMHO, it is important for us to know that Linus Torvalds has expressed his point of view on that debate, even if the article is "full of mistakes". Also, some of the proponents of the SecureBoot-enabled Fedora could maybe explain Linus his mistakes, so that his future feedback be more educated? Or, at least, publish a blog post, so that when we search for "Linus Torvalds Fedora", the ZD's article will not be the only one to be given back by the search engines...
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