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How likely is it that disabling Secure Boot on a home computer running Linux would suffer from the advertised threat ofadvertised threat of

unauthorized code—such as bootkits and rootkits—from being executed during the boot process?

How would such animals get onto a home computer of which I am the only user? It seems unlikely to me that that would be a problem in my instance. But maybe I am missing something? But maybe I am missing something?

I am interested in doing this because I would like to enable hibernation on this computer, which, because it has an nVidia GPU, cannot be reliably suspended. The computer has a swap partition and nvram rather than a hard disk, and I think the delays would be tolerable and less annoying than the frequent need to reboot.

How likely is it that disabling Secure Boot on a home computer running Linux would suffer from the advertised threat of

unauthorized code—such as bootkits and rootkits—from being executed during the boot process?

How would such animals get onto a home computer of which I am the only user? It seems unlikely to me that that would be a problem in my instance. But maybe I am missing something?

I am interested in doing this because I would like to enable hibernation on this computer, which, because it has an nVidia GPU, cannot be reliably suspended. The computer has a swap partition and nvram rather than a hard disk, and I think the delays would be tolerable and less annoying than the frequent need to reboot.

How likely is it that disabling Secure Boot on a home computer running Linux would suffer from the advertised threat of

unauthorized code—such as bootkits and rootkits—from being executed during the boot process?

How would such animals get onto a home computer of which I am the only user? It seems unlikely to me that that would be a problem in my instance. But maybe I am missing something?

I am interested in doing this because I would like to enable hibernation on this computer, which, because it has an nVidia GPU, cannot be reliably suspended. The computer has a swap partition and nvram rather than a hard disk, and I think the delays would be tolerable and less annoying than the frequent need to reboot.

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Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen
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Disabling Secure Boot on a Home Computer running Linux

How likely is it that disabling Secure Boot on a home computer running Linux would suffer from the advertised threat of

unauthorized code—such as bootkits and rootkits—from being executed during the boot process?

How would such animals get onto a home computer of which I am the only user? It seems unlikely to me that that would be a problem in my instance. But maybe I am missing something?

I am interested in doing this because I would like to enable hibernation on this computer, which, because it has an nVidia GPU, cannot be reliably suspended. The computer has a swap partition and nvram rather than a hard disk, and I think the delays would be tolerable and less annoying than the frequent need to reboot.