Comment Re:UEFI (Score 1) 194
Except it does nothing about that. Physical access still == owned unless you lock the bios/uefi and physically lock the machine. Otherwise the attacker can either take out the HDD or boot up a Linux live CD or other HDD by adding a new key. That's no different from the current state of affairs where we change the boot order, lock down the bios and lock the machine. That means the purpose for Secure Boot has to be something else... and easy money is on market dominance (even just joe-user home market dominance).
It's also going to put an end to people being able to use Linux "Live" CDs as emergency recovery tools. I know of several instances where the only way to get data of a crapped out windows install was to boot off a live disk, then copy stuff to USB. Looks like going forward, if your windows install craps out, as it is wont to do more so than any other system I've seen, you're SOL unless you have backups.
That would be a good thing, but people are generally too stupid to have current backups.