[DC LoCo] Mark Shuttleworth responds to: Any comment on the Ubuntu UEFI ruckus?

[Kevin Cole]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:45 AM, jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:

that's one thing for a personal use computer,
> and I agree, I buy something I damn
> well better be able to run whatever
> I want on it...
>
> what about work computers?
>
> Boss/ Job wants only certain applications
> and OS run on work time, and work
> resources,
>
> and then there is the gov/ military
> sector, where the information is Owned
> and access control needed
> ala wikileaks...
>

Well, at a different level, it's the same thing: A sysadmin / "security
officer" / what-have-you should be allowed to actively choose to have
Microsoft (or whomever) manage the campus-wide security OR say "We have the
in-house expertise to dig our own graves... er, manage our own security."
;-)  Said employees can then dictate and mandate requirements for all
machines under their control and either firewall off machines that are
brought in from the outside, or just prevent them from being brought in at
all.  Sure even with all the protections in place, someone, somewhere will
screw up and eventually something nasty will happen (which is why I never
want a job in security: I have a hard enough time sleeping at night), but
that's going to be true in a Microsoft-controlled world as well, n'est pas?
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