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Author: Arnt Karlsen
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Subject: [DNG] ..so, Orson Welles and Aldous Huxley predicted Microsoft & Lennart Poettering's "Brave New Trusted Boot World"? :oD [OT]
Hi,

..https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/26/tightening_linux_boot_process_microsoft_poettering/?td=keepreading
"Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot
process Building your own initial RAMdisk? That's insecure!
Lennart Poettering's latest blog post proposes moving the Linux boot
process into a "Brave New Trusted Boot World" of cryptographically
signed Unified Kernel Images."

..https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/03/version_252_systemd/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=top-article
"Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process
The init system that everybody loves to hate
The fall version of systemd is here, with support for increased boot
security, including tightened full-disk encryption."


..2 great old "science fiction" novels turned general history
lessons on totalitarian German speaking vanity war makers: ;o)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.