So if someone breaks into my house and gets access to my device and another device on my network to execute a man in the middle attack, they could bypass secureboot which I don't use anyway? Because I'm okay with that.
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Because I’m okay with that.
You daredevil you - LIVING ON THE EDGE ! ;-)
Even more non-news than the TPM thing
Given you need physical access (afaiu), there's an easier ~~root~~ route: you come with a flash drive that also has shim, boot from it, and do whatever you wanted to do.
Now if you don't want whoever to be able to bypass suckure boot, you remove microshit's keys and install your own ones. Coincidentally, you don't really need a crutch - that is shim - in that case.
Every fucking time. "Critical security problem with all Linux machines!!!" Turns out you need physical access and the ability to program tools that don't exist yet
The author sounds like they don't fully understand Linux or how Linux boots.
Anyone can just boot off of a USB or remove and modify the disk. The really protection for Linux is full disk encryption with a strong password.