<HTML><BODY><p style='margin-top: 0px;' dir="ltr">Well, actually, its to protect against a blue pill exploits where a hypervisor "lifts" the OS off of the hardware and at that time the OS does not know it is virtualized and the exploiter has complete, uncontested control and access to the OS. In theory it is OS agnostic and has been proofed in the lab. I don't know of any wild exploits.</p>
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Saturday, 30 January 2016, 02:37PM -05:00 from Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br><blockquote style='border-left:1px solid #FC2C38; margin:0px 0px 0px 10px; padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;' cite="14541830360000007244">
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<p dir="ltr">Windows is so unsecureable they have to require hardware devices to guarantee their kernel is real or else the computer won't boot.</p>
<div class="mail-quote-collapse"><div >On Jan 30, 2016 1:01 PM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="//e-aj.my.com/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aagcarver%252Bale@acarver.net" target="_blank" >agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2016-01-30 09:31, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:20:22 -0500<br>
> Chuck Payne <<a href="//e-aj.my.com/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aterrorpup@gmail.com" target="_blank" >terrorpup@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Intel NUC isn't just for windows, I have seen a tons of them running<br>
>> openSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu. As long as you can do a secure boot<br>
>> install, you can run Linux on them.<br>
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> That lets me out. I use Void Linux.<br>
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Secure boot can be disabled on the NUCs. It's only required for<br>
installing Windows.<br>
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