Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:26:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:

However, I welcome the fact that attacks on Windows will be made more
difficult, since that also means smaller botnets, fewer vulnerable
computers etc.

That's the problem: we don't have to care about Windows security, it's
not our business! That's a problem for the Windows users not for us.

Can you guarantee that there isn't and will never be a BIOS rootkit
that affects Linux?

Can you guarantee that Windows botnets don't/won't attack Linux boxes?


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