The fact that OEMs shipped their products with security software components labelled "Do not trust" is hilarious.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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As someone who has worked in the field for almost 20 years now, nah not really.
Amazing. It was published on github, which means it's available forever (anything deleted on github that was forked is still available from the fork).
Btw
The Platform Key, or PK: This provides the root-of-trust anchor in the form of a cryptographic key embedded into the system firmware. It establishes the trust between the platform hardware and all firmware that runs on it.
Does that mean we aren't actually fucked? Can the platform key be updated or is read-only?