“From these limitations checked at boot computers would be very negative for the freedom and safety of users”, said in dialogue with Telam regulation technology expert and researcher of CONICET Ariel Vercelli, who stressed the “importance” of topic.
During the presentation of the new Windows 10 in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, the US software giant announced last arrival of Secure Boot, which he described as “a security standard developed by industry members the week PCs to help ensure that your computer boots using only the software that is considered trusted by the manufacturer. “
In other words, the program is to prevent people who acquire a computer with the new version of Windows can install an alternative operating system like Ubuntu or Huayra among others, conviertiéndolas a sort of hostage Microsoft operating system.
Introducing Microsoft stresses that the computer manufacturer (OEM) decides whether to allow the user to disable” Secure Boot “in the desktop version of Windows 10
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While the presentation in China the US multinational said to be computer manufacturers who must make the decision to allow people off or not the Secure Boot, Telam tried corrobar this information Microsoft but had no answer.
“It might be a good opportunity for that in Argentina a specific public regulation is developed, agreed with the manufacturers of residing computers in the country, which allows users to decide better what operating system they want to use, “said Vercelli, adding a provision to that effect” would give more and no less rights to computer buyers. “
” Something similar should happen with mobile phones has produced and marketed in the country “because” these new standards would also be a strong incentive to strengthen national and regional computer industry, “he added.
Meanwhile, the software developer Álvaro Soliverez Telam said that Microsoft “now, citing security as a reason, attempts to block other operating systems without certification. That is, the creators of the operating system with the worst safety record even suspected of selling these vulnerabilities, try to be the ones who define what is safe and what is not. “
The programmer compared the purchase of a computer Secure Boot enabled with a DVD player that accepts only “films some film company that can not reproduce or local cinema or DVD I built I filmed with my phone or any other”.
“As a developer and user of free software is a play that does not surprise me. This ought to be the subject of agencies competition worldwide, but the legal process takes years, too late, “he said.
” For purely commercial ambitions, Microsoft would be holding back innovation represents Huayra and other free software projects. In short, for the country is a matter of technological sovereignty, and as the main buyer of technology the government should look at this issue with concern, “he said, referring to the operating system developed in the country for computers that delivers the bar program Connect Equality.
The KDVeV member of the organization explained that this is not the first time that the corporation founded by Bill Gates tries to “prevent users from using other operating systems with Windows”, but “in this case, announces it openly. “
” We also implemented mechanisms to prevent other operating systems to run correctly on the same computer, such as Windows Vista, quietly changing the startup of the computer to remove the option to boot other operating systems, “he said.
” It would be unacceptable, and this case is the same. Exploit the issue is more technical and few people install your own operating system, but the freedoms that are at stake are the same, “he said.
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