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    [–] [email protected] 104 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    The fact that random companies like Crowdstrike have kernel drivers in millions of computers they they ship remotely is a security risk in and of itself. We're lucky crowdstrike just shipped a bug that crashes computers, other companies could have shipped a lot worse.

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    other companies could have shipped a lot worse.

    other ~~companies~~ governments could have shipped a lot worse.

    FTFY

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    other ~~companies~~ governments ~~could have~~ may have already shipped a lot worse.

    FTFY (high five!)

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I HATE UEFI I HATE UEFI I HATE UEFI

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    Why do you hate UEFI? Do you hate security?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Sure, there are vulnerabilities. But UEFI offers features such as secure boot, which BIOS doesn't. Also, its nice being able to boot from drives larger then 2tb.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    Not saying BIOS is better.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

    I HATE UEFI I HATE UEFI I HATE UEFI

    So say, we all.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

    I'd swap may out for probably TBH.