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“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
(arstechnica.com)
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I respect their journalistic integrity for not speculating, but it was definitely because the NSA was exploiting it.
Ehhh that's likely enough, but Microsoft is also just shit at fixing things
That's what they want you to believe.
No, they really are. No doubt they do plenty of stuff at the behest of the NSA, but they are also a deeply disfunctional company with conflicts between departments and bare minimum funding for security, since it's seen as a cost centre
I hate to break it to you but why would the NSA need a security hole in secure boot. They already have all your data from Windows plus Microsoft has the decryption keys.
Because some users are putting that data on Linux. So they want Linux to be killed.
They can't change grub. But they sure as hell can convince micro$org to search for and nuke it.
Of course no idea if this happened. Just answering why they would might want to.
So all afected people were potential targets?
Potential targets? Sir, thats everybody.
No, collateral damage.
No, intelligence exploits will sometimes affect the majority of computers on a continent