Secure Boot As Anti-Competitive Behavior

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5. Secure For Who?

I say that 1 way to think of it is that "Secure Boot" in practice is really securing Microsoft. Boot-level malware is actually very hard to execute because there are other security measures stopping it on basically every OS and it often requires physical access to the computer in practice. Even though there is a difference between having the old boot keys expire and blocking all future loaders, experts are saying it could be a test.

HP has been quietly offering computers with FreeDOS for a lower price for the last couple months (the price without the Windows license) in all markets, rather than only lower-income markets. FreeDOS is usually used for playing some old games, but here it is used as a placeholder OS that only shows the system works. All PC manufacturers should start shipping machines with Linux or minimal OSes in the event of a Secure Boot lockdown.