ZeroWidthJoiner

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by ZeroWidthJoiner 3mo ago
The root of trust in Secure Boot is typically an OEM certificate, not Microsoft's, which is probably even worse: https://www.binarly.io/blog/pkfail-untrusted-platform-keys-u... In any case, you're free to rem
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 6mo ago
This enables hardware owners to specify custom kernel driver signing requirements, enabling kernel mode code to run without having to submit it to Microsoft for signing. For an in-depth discussion on the topic of driver signing on Windows s
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Custom kernel mode code signing policies on Windows(learn.microsoft.com)
1 points by ZeroWidthJoiner 6mo ago|1 comments
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 1y ago
Yeah, that original name is corroborated by Raymond Chen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20171114-00/?p=97...
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 1y ago
Search results for "best font ever" has an easter egg as well.
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 1y ago
The backside fingerprint reader could even be used as an input device on some models for scrolling, or pulling down/up the notification bar. Great for scrolling through content or swiping through screens without having to cover your di
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 1y ago
Even before the virtualization-based security feature was introduced this has been the Hyper-V architecture, on server and client SKUs. The management OS is referred to as the "parent partition" or "root partition," and
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 1y ago
This is true for certification, which is mandatory for Server OS, distributing through Windows Update, or certain classes of drivers such as anti-malware or biometric authentication, but you can still submit drivers to Microsoft for "a
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 1y ago
Driver Verifier is a tool that developers can choose to use for testing and debugging purposes. It's not used on production machines and it does nothing to prevent a badly written driver from crashing the kernel.
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 2y ago
> They actually advise OEMs not to install this second key by default ("Secured Core" PCs), and some vendors have followed the advice, such as Lenovo. Resulting in yet another hoop to install non-MS OSes. True, 3rd party not tr
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 2y ago
> I think drivers are going to be the biggest PITA for ARM-based PC users for the first couple years — for example, Google Drive doesn't work for that reason. Google Drive does ship with Arm64 drivers, and patching the platform chec
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 3y ago
> MORE PADDING everywhere It's so ridiculous. You ever wanted Explorer's "details" file list view to have horizontal blank space between rows so rather than selecting the nearest item you could just click through the
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by ZeroWidthJoiner 3y ago
This was initially reported over 2 months ago when it first showed up in canary builds. Microsoft, at the time: "This is an issue in the latest Canary Channel build and the loc folks are working on a fix" ( https://twitt