Re: The Achilles Heel Of Secure Boot: Certificate Revocation
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:57:55 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote: > I blame Jobs, who in the early Mac days said a computer should be > like a toaster. Though if not Jobs, some other marketer would have > done the same. The Apple II was a very versatile appliance. And some of the Macintosh models that were released after Jobs was ejected (like the legendary Macintosh II) were also quite nice as far as universal machines go. It was after Jobs came back to Apple that they dropped the “Computer” part of the company name, and stopped trying to offer general-purpose computation devices ... Luckily, marketers can only work on behalf of their particular companies, they cannot force us all to buy one particular product. Though some people do seem particularly prone to believing that the only products that exist are those accompanied by lots of slick marketing ...