>From what little I have read about uefi secure booting it sounds like a decent feature if not abused from a monopoly, in which case surely they will have yet another anti-trust case on their hands. The problem is likely to be with cheap hardware. Whats intel market share of x86 like, could they do the same? Arm nothing could be done to try mandate other keys, which seems wrong in the first place.

Matthew Garret who was linked in the slashdot had a couple of follow up posts

[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html
[2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/6054.html

Ronnie