Hi Holger! Happy New Year!
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 02:50:32PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
on the german l10n mailinglist a topic came up regarding the 'secure boot' >chapter in the installation-guide: >https://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch03s06.html#secure-boot
It was stated, that the manual declares Secure Boot as an unproblematic >function. And this in an unauthorized way, when looking at the BootHole >security issues.
What do you think?
Should we mention these security issues (or the basic background behind all >this) in the guide? We may add a link to >https://www.debian.org/security/2020-GRUB-UEFI-SecureBoot/
as an overview page for this topic.
Or do we ignore this - saying, that all software could have it's hidden >security holes and therefore there is no need to point out this explicitly >for the Secure Boot function?
I personally don't think it's worth highlighting here specifically, no.
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