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Sounds like a misnomer to me.

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[โ€“] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As bad as secure boot is, that's exactly the use case for it. Frankly, you can both swap the CD and solder a new BIOS flash if you are really interested in boot poisoning, the latter is just a tiny bit harder to do without some sort of trace.

[โ€“] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I meant software attacks, if your hardware is compromised it's pretty much already game over unless you use something esoteric like heads maybe