Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:58:32 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:

uefi is a mini operating system developed primarily for the purpose of
making it harder for other operating systems to be used, and to boost pc
sales.  The attack surface it exposes allows undetectable root kits to
be installed, or machines to be easily bricked just by deleting the
efivars from the nvram.

Harsh ... but fair ...

uefi is marketed as improving security. While it may block amateur
attackers, it is a security nightmare.

To me, the big security nightmare seems to be “Secure Boot”, which so
far has been anything but. It was supposed to be possible to revoke
security keys for compromised bootloaders/OSes, but this turned out to
be impossible in practice
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-pulls-security-update-after-reports-of-issues-affecting-some-pcs/>.