Mark Shuttleworth: ACPI, firmware and your security
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ACPI comes from an era when the operating system was proprietary and couldn’t be changed by the hardware manufacturer.
We don’t live in that era any more.
However, we DO live in an era where any firmware code running on your phone, tablet, PC, TV, wifi router, washing machine, server, or the server running the cloud your SAAS app is running on, is a threat vector against you.
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Arguing for ACPI on your next-generation device is arguing for a trojan horse of monumental proportions to be installed in your living room and in your data centre. I’ve been to Troy, there is not much left.
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From : http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1332
What do you think?
Yes, the binary blobs are a big problem but unfortunately this discussion is framed poorly (typical Shuttleworth)
>security and efficiency
How bout freedom?
>Our mission in Ubuntu is to give the world’s people a free platform they can trust.
Does that include the Unity spy lenses?
Searching in the dash
When you enter a search term into the dash Ubuntu will search your Ubuntu computer and will record the search terms locally. Unless you have opted out (see the “Online Search” section below), we will also send your keystrokes as a search term to productsearch.ubuntu.com and selected third parties so that we may complement your search results with online search results from such third parties including: Facebook, Twitter, BBC and Amazon.
-- http://www.ubuntu.com/privacy-policy
For the whole motley crew looking over your shoulder if you use Ubuntu, see http://www.ubuntu.com/privacy-policy/third-parties
> From : http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1332
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> What do you think?
I think that we should invite Ubuntu users to use Linux-libre.
Andrew.
Or Trisquel GNU/Linux ;)
If he says something good I'll give him credit for it.