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by stavros 1200 days ago
Oh wow, it installs its own legitimate but vunerable firmware. I don't know why this tickles me so much, but it does.
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> Oh wow, it installs its own legitimate but vunerable firmware.

No it doesn't. It's using a legitimate but vulnerable version of the windows bootloader which hasn't been added to the UEFI revocation list yet. It's not doing anything with firmware.

Downgrading UEFI firmware would be far more complicated.