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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 12, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. UEFI 9/11 Aftermath - Part III: Mr. 'Secure Boot' (Shim) and His Fake 'Holiday' (Sending My Wife and I Threatening E-mails on 9/11)

   despite being on holiday, according to him, he finds time to instruct lawyers to contact my wife

2. Ron Wyden: Microsoft Should be Held Accountable for Security Breaches (He Has Said This for Years Already, It Never Happens)

   Negative media coverage isn't a fine and it does nothing to compensate Microsoft's billions of victims

3. Disable 'Secure Boot' (If It Lets You)

   it doesn't put you in control

4. Longtime Red Hat Staff: Maybe Just Disable 'Secure Boot'

   A refreshing take from Adam Williamson

5. A Dozen Observations About "UEFI 9/11" Deflections

   What we are expected to see, tentatively

6. The World's Richest Ponzi Scheme (Faking Value Using Net Waste)

   The higher they go the harder they fall

7. We Could Dual-Boot Back in the 1990s, Why Has This Become So Difficult?

   And prone to breakage

8. Slopwatch: Google News is Still Promoting Many Fake Articles About "Linux", in Effect Rewarding Misinformation and Plagiarism

   things continue to deteriorate

   New

9. Microsoft Admits the Workers Have Lost Trust (Endless Layoffs, 12-13 Rounds of Layoffs This Year), So Now It's Trotting out Its Peter Bright-Like Media Prop Jordan Novet

   What they don't want people to pay attention to right now

10. Links 11/09/2025: Windows TCO and Russian Drones Invading Poland (EU/NATO)

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 11/09/2025: xkcd, misfin, and Alhena 5.3.2

    Links for the day

12. Repetition of Last Summer (Microsoft Breaking Dual-Boot Systems)

    UEFI 9/11 is about to kick in

13. UEFI 'Secure Boot' Boiling Frogs (Cannot Turn Off 'Secure Boot')

    "MSI laptop is locked on Secure Boot and doesn't allow me to turn it off"

14. UEFI 9/11 Aftermath - Part IV: The 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' and His 'Hideout' Holiday (Retreat From Reality)

    Let's keep an eye on what matters

15. UEFI 9/11 Aftermath - Part II: "The SecureBoot Thing Got Out of Hand."

    The next few weeks might be... interesting

16. UEFI 9/11 Aftermath - Part I: "I Believe This Affects Thousands of Devices... Because Multiple Devices I Checked, Whether Client or Server [...] Affected."

    Most people aren't even aware that this is happening or about to happen

17. The UEFI 9/11 - Part X - An Outline of the Series About Microsoft Sabotaging GNU/Linux (With Ramifications to Unfold Online in Coming Weeks as People Reboot)

    Today is UEFI 9/11 (9/11/2025)

18. Culture of silence: Ubisoft harassment convictions, Mozilla, Sylvestre Ledru & Debian make no comment

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

19. Links 11/09/2025: "Hey Hi" Ponzi Schemes at Oracle (Unpaid Contracts) and Cindy Cohn is Leaving the EFF

    Links for the day

20. Gemini Links 11/09/2025: Playdate Console, Dichotomy between the Real and the Digital

    Links for the day

21. The Microsoft AstroTurfing and Microsoft-Led Blame-Shifting Tactics Are Ahead of Us

    Of course it has nothing to do with security, it's about control, i.e. them controlling everything

22. Celebrating Assassination is Bad Because It Legitimises Assassination of the People You Like, Too

    Condoning or even celebrating political assassinations is bad optics (and taste)

23. Being Conditioned to Accept Unreliable Computer Systems That Fail With Black Screen of Death (BSoD)

    Welcome to 2025

24. New Series: The Coup Against GNU/Linux Has Begun

    today, this year in particular, we shall also focus on Secure Boot, which is sold based on a lie and tortures many computer user

25. New Paper on "BYOVD, but in firmware. Signed UEFI shells, vulnerable modules offer new paths for Secure Boot bypasses."

    One might say digital "security theatre"

26. Links 11/09/2025: Oracle Layoffs, Drunk Pilots in Japan Airlines, US-Korea Tensions Grow

    Links for the day

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, September 10, 2025

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