CubitOom@infosec.pub to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoLol, they locked all the posts for the communityinfosec.pubimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1311arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1295arrow-down1imageLol, they locked all the posts for the communityinfosec.pubCubitOom@infosec.pub to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square119fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-219 hours ago In A UEFI World, “rm -rf /” Can Brick Your System efivars are made read only by the kernel. That firmware bug (!) was worked around in the kernel years ago. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst Specifically in 2016: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879
minus-squareJumutalinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·7 hours agouefi is cringe anyway, reject uefi and return to grub in the system firmware
efivars are made read only by the kernel. That firmware bug (!) was worked around in the kernel years ago.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst
Specifically in 2016: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879
uefi is cringe anyway, reject uefi and return to grub in the system firmware