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And by "it", you mean fascism.

I am not a hacker, but what I gathered from the article is that this is due to shims with vulnerabilities being left as trusted instead of being revoked. If that's the case, wouldn't the hacker be using a modified version of a compromised shim? It shouldn't have to be a shim that you actually use right? Or does the signed shim have to correspond to thr correct OS that signed it?

I miss this meme, those were the days.

Hey, a great first attempt