• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    america cannot really backdoor a specification. uefi is not software, but a specification, upon which firmwares can be built. that’s another story that we happen to be calling the firmware on our computers “the uefi”, but really there are quite a few different proprietary uefi implementations out there already.

    so, if that ws the reason, they could have just created their own UEFI firmware, and not something different

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Hey you sound like someone who knows what they are talking about - is UBIOS also a specification like UEFI is a specification? Hypothetically could others also build firmware that adheres to this UBIOS specs?