PCs without the new certificates could eventually have trouble booting new OSes.

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    23 hours ago

    In all that mess and scare last year I just switched secure boot off. It still isn’t clear to me how much of a risk it is, read many different opinions online, but seems not a terribly big risk and I don’t have to worry about this crap.

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      21 hours ago

      Secure boot is supposed to help against a malicious agent (e.g. the government, Microsoft) compromising your PC’s security by accessing through another OS.

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        20 hours ago

        It wouldn’t help anyway without encryption. Pull the drive and have a look.

        Secure boot is supposed to continue your reliance on proprietary software, any security it tacks on is unintentional.