Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 82% confidenceRon Minnich explains why UEFI and the Intel Management Engine form a huge, closed attack surface and how Google's LinuxBoot replaces most of that firmware with a Linux kernel; concrete detail from the engineer behind coreboot.
What you'll learn
Ron Minnich explains the problems with proprietary firmware (UEFI, management engine) and how Google replaced it with Linux (NERF).
Video by The Linux Foundation, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of Open Source Summit Europe & Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2017
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