Destide to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 days agoBattlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0youtu.bemessage-square211fedilinkarrow-up1508arrow-down110cross-posted to: linux_gaming@lemmy.worldgaming@beehaw.org
arrow-up1498arrow-down1external-linkBattlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0youtu.beDestide to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 days agomessage-square211fedilinkcross-posted to: linux_gaming@lemmy.worldgaming@beehaw.org
minus-square@SoupBrick@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish13•10 days agoIt fucks with Linux. I literally just disabled it to resolve a driver install issue before this announcement was made.
minus-square@9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•10 days agoLinux can run with secure boot just fine though. Use your distros documentation to set it up.
minus-squaretroedlinkfedilink3•10 days agoSecureboot doesn’t “fuck with Linux”. It does protect you from malware trying to install unsigned kernel modules. Apparently that driver is unsigned, which is not the normal case nowadays.
minus-square@SoupBrick@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-210 days agoGood to know, thanks I was trying to install an Nvidia driver on Linux Mint, so I think I am safe.
minus-squareSkavarSharraddaslinkfedilink2•10 days agoIs that a realistic attack scenario that end users need to be concerned about?
minus-square@Oisteink@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 days agoThis happens to roughly 1/3rd of all pc’s. But if you put secureboot ON and the FBI cant touch your pc
minus-square@frongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 days agoThis type of attack has been seen in the wild for quite some time. Ultimately it’s a security vs convenience decision.
It fucks with Linux. I literally just disabled it to resolve a driver install issue before this announcement was made.
Linux can run with secure boot just fine though. Use your distros documentation to set it up.
Secureboot doesn’t “fuck with Linux”. It does protect you from malware trying to install unsigned kernel modules.
Apparently that driver is unsigned, which is not the normal case nowadays.
Good to know, thanks
I was trying to install an Nvidia driver on Linux Mint, so I think I am safe.
Is that a realistic attack scenario that end users need to be concerned about?
Yes. That’s how you get undetectable rootkits.
This happens to roughly 1/3rd of all pc’s. But if you put secureboot ON and the FBI cant touch your pc
This type of attack has been seen in the wild for quite some time. Ultimately it’s a security vs convenience decision.