[JRandomFreeper]

I won't buy a board that has that crap on it.

/johnny

[rarestia]

I won't buy a board that has that crap on it.

Good luck with that one! UEFI has been on every board manufactured since 2008. It will soon replaced the traditional BIOS, and I, for one, am excited about that.

The problem is with the actual mechanism of 'secure boot.' If you don't have the hash used to create the secure boot portion of the UEFI boot processor, you can't modify it. If you can flash your UEFI processor, you can do whatever you want to it. That's the beauty of the GNU licensing platform.

Problem is that since Win8 requires secure boot, you're stuck using it, and as I understand it, Win8 actually creates the secure boot sector on the UEFI processor and locks it. That's the ultimate issue here. Use Secure Boot all day long, but don't lock it or otherwise force us out of it. It has a purpose, but since it's been compromised and hijacked by Micro$oft, they want to get rid of it altogether.