[ale] OT: micro mini nano PC

[damon at damtek.com]

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.
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Damon Saturday, 30 January 2016, 02:37PM -05:00 from Jim Kinney < jim.kinney at gmail.com> :

>So....
>Windows is so unsecureable they have to require hardware devices to guarantee their kernel is real or else the computer won't boot.
>On Jan 30, 2016 1:01 PM, "Alex Carver" < agcarver+ale at acarver.net > wrote:
>>On 2016-01-30 09:31, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:20:22 -0500
>>> Chuck Payne < terrorpup at gmail.com > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Intel NUC isn't just for windows, I have seen a tons of them running
>>>> openSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu. As long as you can do a secure boot
>>>> install, you can run Linux on them.
>>>
>>> That lets me out. I use Void Linux.
>>>
>>> SteveT
>>>
>>
>>Secure boot can be disabled on the NUCs.  It's only required for
>>installing Windows.
>>
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