It has been shown that the signature can and has been forgedĢ.
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Signing drivers has been proven to be ineffective for several reasons:ġ. To not fight it could result in the same problems and reputation that Windows now enjoys. But I will say that Windows coders have bad habits that are quite common and prevalent.Īs Linux coders grow in numbers, it is more and more important that things like abusing root or setting up kernel modules unnecessarily should be protested and prevented at every turn. I'm not going to assert whether or not Microsoft is partly to blame or has any blame in this. This culture of performance over stability and proper coding methods has undermined the security and stability of Windows. And when apps misbehave, they are flying without a net since the ring-1 and above offer levels of "protection" from misbehaving or malfunctioning apps. If you don't already know, "ring-0" means the code has access to the entire machine and all memory. Now, instead of people using the Windows API properly, people are using undocumented APIs that are subject to undocumented change, people are still trying to squeeze more performance from their apps by moving code into ring-0 virtual driver code. And that's where the PC's "bad programming habits" began and it just got worse from there.
Well, for most people, BIOS wasn't fast enough so people started writing code to work around it. The idea was that each device was to have a ROM that linked itself to the system's BIOS and that there would be a more unified system for handling I/O. As the PC developed, IO calls were to be linked through the BIOS.