Re: Best Desktop Computer for Linux Mint

From	Andrew <Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Best Desktop Computer for Linux Mint
Date	2021-03-24 11:31 +0100
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Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:13:48 +0100, David Brown wrote:
>> There is nothing that a UEFI BIOS can do that a traditional BIOS
>> cannot,
> 
> Yes it is. An UEFI BIOS is able to understand and modify contents on file
> systems on the computer. This in combination with the feature to be able
> to update the BIOS from software running in the computers operating
> system makes things interesting in a bad way. This is the kind of
> features that gives us persistent malware surviving reformatted and even
> repaced disks. The features are not only used by malware makers but has
> also been used by vendors like Lenovo for bloatware:
> 
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenovo-busted-
> stealthily-installing-crapware-via-bios-fresh-windows-installs.shtml
> 
> What did they call this? Secure boot?
> 
> regards Henrik
> 

If you're worried about horrible things happening on your /boot/efi 
filesystem, may I suggest 
https://linuxconfig.org/intrusion-detection-systems-using-tripwire-on-linux
I have used this in the distant past when in a corporate network where a 
sysadmin was known to have dubious morals and can say that you need to 
be very careful which filesystems you use this on - a "differences" 
report of half a million lines is useless for practical purposes, even 
/boot/efi is updated quite frequently with the distribution I use.

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