0x2D: FSF's Restricted Boot Paper

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x2D_Restricted-Boot.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x2D_Restricted-Boot.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Karen and Bradley discuss <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-publishes-whitepaper-with-recommendations-for-free-operating-system-distributions-considering-secure-boot">FSF's announcement</a> of <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/whitepaper-web">FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot</a>, which critiques <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html">Red Hat's approach to restricted boot for its Fedora distribution</a> and <a href="http://blog.canonical.com/2012/06/22/an-update-on-ubuntu-and-secure-boot/">Canonical, Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution</a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:38)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names. Bradley used <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">FSF's criticism of the term &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo;</a> as an example of why it's important to avoid biased terminology. (02:22)</li> <li>Karen suggested that listeners may want to read <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/whitepaper-web">FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot</a>. (04:00)</li> <li>Bradley suggested also reading <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html">the Fedora statement</a> and both <a href="http://blog.canonical.com/2012/06/22/an-update-on-ubuntu-and-secure-boot/">Canonical, Ltd.</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035445.html">statements</a>. (04:37)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen mentioned the <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/3244.html">many</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/3611.html">blog</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4125.html">posts</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html">Matthew</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html">Garrett</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html">made</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/6054.html">about</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/6503.html">UEFI</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/7081.html">are</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/7411.html">worth</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/8339.html">reading</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/8488.html">in</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/9844.html">sequence</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/10971.html">to</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html">learn</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12745.html">more</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12897.html">about</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/13061.html">this</a> <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html">issue</a>. (13:21)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/broadcast-flag.html">FSF collaborated</a> with the EFF on the <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/broadcast-flag">broadcast flag issue</a>. (25:40)</li> <li><a href="http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-May/418892.html">Alan Cox made some critical posts toward Matthew and the Red Hat policy</a>. (20:50)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Aliens"><cite>Ancient Aliens</cite> from the History channel</a>. (39:15)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>