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Detailed: How Russian government's Fancy Bear UEFI rootkit sneaks onto Windows PCs

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Re: What I want to know

What I want to know is which vendor ships with secure boot disabled in this day and age and which government has it disabled on PCs running Windows.

The last time I have come across a laptop which came with secure boot disabled from factory was in October 2012. Everything after that had it enabled.

Dunno, it's probably me missing something, but I do not see the point of having this functionality in a rootkit except for "tick the box" purposes. Who are the potential targets?

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