When Secure Boot was new, people like me who argued that it would be used to take away control and lock us out of our own computers were roundly laughed at, told we were alarmists and that it “wasn’t a big deal.”

Well just what I and others predicted would happen is happening.

I’m astounded by just how much people blindly trust corporations. What is that about?

By the way, Apple-branded computers are now more “open” than most machines that come with Windows. The infringing of SecureBoot on my rights to my own equipment will only increase this difference.

In other words, it’s easy to install Linux on my MacBook Pro. Not so much modern OEM boxes and that will only get worse.

We had the internet and computers that worked for us rather than for corporations, but as I’ve said before we were too fucking dumb to keep it.