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  • Edit: Seems I completely misread the title myself. See reply below

    What’s interesting is that the headline says that but then it’s refuted further down.

    But family members closest to Walz, including his sister Sandy Dietrich, want people to know that while the people in the photo may be family, they’re merely distant cousins.

    “We weren’t close with them. We didn’t know them,” Dietrich told The Associated Press.

    And

    Herbster’s spokesperson Rod Edwards told Forbes a friend of the Walz family provided Herbster’s team with the photo. He also clarified to the AP that the family in the picture are the descendants of Francis Walz, who was the brother of Tim Walz’s grandfather.

















  • I think Secure boot is intended to check that the boot loader itself is signed.

    This is a way to mitigate viruses and malware that infects the boot loader so it can reinstall itself if it’s removed by AV, or something else.

    If you can create a boot loader that is signed in such a way that secure boot can’t tell it’s invalid then you can do some nasty stuff.

    Closest analogy I can think of is verisigns private key being leaked and there’s no fast and easy way to revoke and replace it without wreaking havoc on currently installed OS’s machines.