Hey, remember that period of a few weeks earlier this year when I got way into computer security?

You mean, I like to think it's your secure boot phase.

I went real deep on signing.

Yeah.

EFI bootloaders and the Linux kernel and stuff like that to work with secure boot because I felt I insisted that secure boot be on on all my computers.

And I remember saying, man, nobody uses secure boot. It's fine. Just turn it off and then installing Linux easy. I'm making that hand motion, you know, where you kind of polish your hand on your shirt. Oh, oh, that's what that is. Somebody was ahead of the curve. Yeah. Okay. So there's some things that happened in the last like 15 years of computers and

they're kind of black boxes and Secure Boot is one of those for me, right? Like I understand

theoretically what's happening, but I don't understand the impacts of how it works and all the

bioses, sorry, UEFIs have different descriptions in there of what the settings are. Yeah. And the one time I've screwed it up, it ended up with me reinstalling Windows because I couldn't recover the windows install with the keys that I had or something. Now, that part I don't get. A lot of the fearmongering I've been seeing. Hang on, we should back up. Point of order. The reason we're even talking about secure boot is that the

Battlefield 6 beta is running this weekend. Which owns, just for the record. Yeah. It's a good one. I should check that out. Yeah. But on PC, it requires you, it's, it's, its level of anti-cheat requires you to have secure boot enabled on your PC. So this is, to run it. This is part of the new

anti-cheat. The next cod

cod blob 7 is going to have secure boot enabled on your PC. So this is run it. This is part of the new anti-cheat.

The next cod, Cod, Cod Blop 7 is going to have secure boot required anti-cheat as well. Same thing. And I think part of the theory is they want to make sure that you're not running A and a VM. Like they want to make sure you're not running Windows in a VM. so then you can monkey with the state of the VM from outside the VM.

Be like, like you're they want to make sure you're not running windows in a VM so then you can monkey with the state of the VM from outside the VM.

B like that's the only thing I can think of because like I don't think anybody's running boot level cheating programs.

Probably not.

I think there's also secure the the enabling secure boot also flips on the flag that

requires sign drivers which

means that hardware hacking devices that people use that are like i think pc i express cards

that are interface with software and then can communicate across the system bus or something wait hang on

i need to stop you are you suggesting there is cheating hardware out there my understanding

there was a threat.

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