This liquid state alters the safety profile of the system.
—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
Secure Boot is designed to thwart UEFI bootkits, a form of malware that alters the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, the successor to the BIOS, both of which begin the initial boot sequence.
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