Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?] Message-ID: <03ad948ef0fdab7fabfe119fdef00a0a@mail.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <20120605172046.2571e964@scorpio> References: <20120605201900.GB60388@hs1.VERBENA> <20120605172046.2571e964@scorpio>
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On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: > The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what > FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users do > not > use the latest versions of most hardware, so it may be a while before > its user base is even effected. I don't believe at this point FreeBSD has any intent one way or another, really. It's not an immediate problem for any platform supported by the FreeBSD project, at least for a technically-inclined user who's willing to check out their BIOS. (Even if they are using the latest hardware, the x86-derived platforms aren't going to require this code signing yet.) So it'll probably be a 'wait and see if it's something the FreeBSD community needs a solution for' at this point. But this is just my impression. In slight defense of RedHat: They do a lot of worrying about enterprise and government customers, many of whom don't really care what platform they are running on - as long as they can get 'support' and it passes their security/operational tests. In that environment, I can easily see some middle-manager decreeing that disabling the signed-boot process is verboten, without any understanding of the meaning or the consequences, and enforcing it on the whole company/division, to the point where any non-signed OS would be thrown out the door. FreeBSD has probably already been thrown out the door at those types of locations, as there is no 'official' support channel. (Yes, for my sins, I work at one of these...) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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