> Security researchers are alarmed: the already-notorious Trickbot malware has been spottied probing infected computers to find out which version of UEFI they're running. This is read as evidence that Trickbot has figured out how to pull off a really scary feat.
Good news for #Linux users: with #UEFI and (some?) @Dell@twitter.com devices you can update your BIOS by just copying the evil .exe file into the EFI partition and select it for upgrade on reboot. Nice, no #Windows required anymore. Tested on Latitude 5285.
@chobodoc No, but good to laugh. Read the whole text so far: First I've striped down the #Intel-ME and removing #UEFI with #Coreboot. Second I've removed the stickers. But a good joke when this would be so easy! ;-)
Schade: Die Dokumentation "Das Microsoft-Dilemma" fängt an für sich gut an. Jedoch ist die Benennung #Linux nicht korrekt: Das wäre dann NUR der Kernel und wenn wäre es dann beispielsweise #GNU-Linux. Und was ist mit der Hardware?
Diese ist ebenso Einfallstor für Probleme, gerade mit #UEFI. Und genau darüber fällt natürlich kein Wort: Könnte man dann doch tatsächlich noch die Dokumentation / Reportage weit größer aufziehen und tiefgehender Wissen vermitteln. So kratzt das Alles wenn nur an der Oberfläche.
Well it seems most people just tend to so-called pragmatism when it's about free, libre and non-free, proprietary software. But just another point of view: This pragmatism has got us into real big trouble regarding soft- and hardware. Because we don't care too much when modern systems are delivered with broken components and even the base is with #UEFI a gateway for more problems. We don't care when products and companies enforcing cloud-computing as backend. And yes, some of us are even proud using the crappy products of #Adobe.
The other way? Just try free, libre software in comparison like #GIMP or #Scribus. Take part at the development, even with writing proposals for optimizations within the workflow. Don't use this pragmatism!