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by wtracy 5096 days ago
It seems that UEFI is supposed to protect against malicious actors who have physical access to your machine.

Of course, you're also assuming that securing the end-user is the actual goal of UEFI. ;-) I can see legitimate situations where a corporation would want to ensure that their employees aren't tampering with their hardware.

Of course, I think it's fairly obvious by now that one of the main reasons that MS is pushing UEFI at this point is to prevent Android from being installed on "Windows" hardware.

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If someone have physical access to my machine he/she can install keys if the BIOS supports that anyway. And even if it doesn't i have many more things to worry anyway. UEFI don't protect me from stealing the machine or the HD data or installing mallicius software.

Of course, i totally agree with you on that the reall reasons is for MS and hardware manufactures is trying to control MY hardware.