[SGVLUG] Chromebook and the future of secure boot

[Dan Kegel]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Braddock Gaskill
<braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately I learned that if you turn the firmware secure boot option
> off on the Chromebook, Netflix on Chrome OS will refuse to work.  Thus no
> dual-booting possible for Netflix users.
>
> I have canceled my Chromebook order.
>
> Is this the future?  When secure UEFI becomes commonplace next year and
> required for Windows 8, will turning it off to enable dual booting cause
> apps like Netflix in Windows to refuse to run?  Windows becomes
> cripple-ware if you dare install Linux?

Probably all DRM will be disabled if you flip that
switch.  I hadn't expected dual-booting to be prohibited,
though.

BTW, there's a tiny bit of info about the netflix stuff at
http://lwn.net/Articles/459420/