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by fsflover 67 days ago
Instead of proprietary SecureBoot controlled by megacorps, you can use TPM with Heads based entirely on FLOSS with a hardware key like Librem Key. Works for me and protects from the Evil Maid attack.
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You can also use SB with your own keys (or even just hashes)...just because Microsoft is the default included with most commercially sold PCs—since most people use Windows on their PCs—doesn't mean SB is controlled by them. You can remove their signing cert entirely if you want. I have done this and used my own.

Plus they signed the shim loader for Linux anyways so they almost immediately gave up any "control" they might have had through SB.

Won't removing the Microsoft key prevent UEFI option ROMs from PCIe cards from loading when Secure Boot is enabled?

Is it even possible to install firmware containing an oprom resigned with a custom key onto, say, a modern Nvidia GPU, without the entire firmware bundle being signed by Nvidia's own key?