Re: The Achilles Heel Of Secure Boot: Certificate Revocation

On 2026-07-17, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Oregonian Haruspex  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>That’s just sad and pitiful. It’s like buying the car you saw on TV, not
>>knowing they make more than one car. How could anybody not know basic
>>computer stuff by now? 
>
> Fewer computer users today know basic operational stuff than they did 
> twenty years ago.  Making computers "easier to use" by obscuring what
> happens inside the box has lead to a generation or more of users who
> don't actually care.
> --scott

I can't help but think that Windows 4 PCs from last century are better
than Android devices because at least you're able to do things Android
installs often bar you from doing.

Google reportedly wants to require ID verification to develop for
Android. Now maybe if they instead required manufacturers not to make
applications uninstallable or even impossible to disable... What the
shit is this. Even if I wanted to use Windows NT, I'd usually be able to
grab drivers and do a clean install on a machine that came with a load
of questionable stuff preinstalled. At most, I'd have to deal with some
annoying driver if a hardware manufacturer had chosen to be silly in
their driver utilities. On Android devices that is, IIUC, made more
difficult because you probably need to root and get a third-party image
built for that system.

-- 
Nuno Silva