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There used to be a requirement by MS mandating secure boot to be disable-able. Though I think they scrapped that requirement later on. No idea if third party CA enabling also has such a requirement.


> There used to be a requirement by MS mandating secure boot to be disable-able.

Not always, in some situations there was a requirement by MS mandating secure boot NOT to be disable-able: https://softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confi... "Disabling Secure [Boot] MUST NOT be possible on ARM systems."


Disabling secure boot is one thing you should be able to do with hardware you own. Of course that's not a good idea if you want to run a non-Windows OS in a secure manner. Installing your own CA cert should also be possible. That's what we do at work with current UEFI implementations.




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