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Secure Boot keys are considered compromised.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/
If you are recommending secure boot as a security measure, you should stop doing so.
I'm not recommending it, I'm describing why saying it adds no security is silly.
The keys being compromised on some motherboards doesn't mean the whole concept is suddenly inert for every single user
If everyone has a copy of my passwords and authenticator keys, that wouldn't suddenly make 2 factor auth a compromised idea.
Hell, even if you are one of those people running a machine with the compromised keys, it's still going to block malware that was written before the keys were leaked unless malware authors have also figured out time travel.
Not sure how this relates. If you're saying it was a good idea at the outset, then sure.... If the keys hadn't almost all been leaked by AMI and Phoenix. MS was supposed to have created a Microsoft Certified hardware vendor program for this, which fell apart pretty quickly.
Secure Boot is a joke, both practically (there are many, many tools in use to bypass it) and in my professional circles, it is considered obsolete like WEP. My audit controls for Secure Boot demand that an endpoint management solution like InTune is deployed.
You don't have to take my word for it, obviously. I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life.