• fireshell@kbin.earth
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    7 months ago

    Introduce mandatory signatures for driver files, they said. It’s so safe, it’s for your protection against viruses - they said. Keys can always be revoked from unscrupulous developers - they said. It will never be used to fight opensource, they said. It will never be a tool against inconvenient CIA applications - they said.

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        7 months ago

        I don’t understand why they are signing it. I mean we know that Microsoft is hostile, why submit to their signing bullshit.

        The more you normalise bad behaviour the worse it gets.

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          Signing it verifies that the software was made by company that it says it was. It’s a method to avoid installing fake or malicious software.

          It is on its face a good thing, with the major caveat being who is in charge of who gets to sign what.