| Thread Tools |
20th July 2012, 07:19 | #1 |
[M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
Posts: 148,055
| Richard Stallman wades into Microsoft After being uncharacteristically quiet on the matter of Microsoft's Window's 8's secure book, Open Source Guru Richard Stallman has finally vented his spleen. In an interview with Bytes Media, Stallman dubbed Windows 8 secure boot a disaster. He said that it was not really a secure boot at all, just a restricted one. Stallman said that when it was under the control of the user a secure boot was a security feature because it allowed the user to control which programs can run on a machine and stop unexpected malware from running. But what Microsoft's version does is cause the machine to only work with programs that are signed with a certain key which are not controlled by the user. Microsoft demands that ARM computers sold for Windows 8 be set up so that the user cannot change the keys. Stallman thinks that this is abuse of the users and ought to be made illegal. He added that this sort of thing proved that non-free software was wrong because users deserve to have control of their computers. If the user doesn't control the keys, then it's a kind of shackle, and that would be true no matter what system it is, Stallman said. http://news.techeye.net/software/ric...into-microsoft |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Microsoft Windows 7 Due Next Year, Says Microsoft Chairman | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 7th April 2008 00:08 |
AMD's Henri Richard to step down | Sidney | WebNews | 0 | 23rd August 2007 00:01 |
crl.microsoft.com | wutske | General Madness - System Building Advice | 2 | 4th January 2007 16:31 |
Microsoft to buy eBay? | Sidney | WebNews | 0 | 30th May 2006 05:54 |
Henri Richard Confirms K8L CPU Core, Some Details | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 14th March 2006 22:14 |
Microsoft Says Sorry! | Sidney | WebNews | 0 | 29th October 2004 00:56 |
ATI's Richard Huddy talks about Get In The Game | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 11th July 2004 23:15 |
Microsoft DX9.0c available. Almost | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 24th June 2004 15:54 |
Thread Tools | |
| |