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Matthew Garrett grumbles about an
apparent Microsoft policy change making it harder to boot Linux on some
systems.

So, to have Microsoft, the self-appointed steward of the UEFI
Secure Boot ecosystem, turn round and say that a bunch of binaries
that have been reviewed through processes developed in negotiation
with Microsoft, implementing technologies designed to make
management of revocation easier for Microsoft, and incorporating
fixes for vulnerabilities discovered by the developers of those
binaries who notified Microsoft of these issues despite having no
obligation to do so, and which have then been signed by Microsoft
are now considered by Microsoft to be insecure is, uh, kind of
impolite?