Uh ... secure boot might be trying to tell you something.

So, anyway, today this popped up on my google alerts...

Apparently, some people see a message that says "Secure boot violation. The system found unauthorized changes on the firmware, operating system or UEFI drivers.", and the article suggests that the answer is to (1) Turn off secure boot, and (2) Use a system restore point.

The article explains how to do those steps, and the upside is that turning off secure boot will stop you seeing the message, but the downside is that Secure Boot might be trying to tell you something. ;-)

The danger here is that malware is increasingly targeting firmware.

And, I might be wrong, but I don't think that using a system restore point will restore firmware.

If you do see such a message, you are better off to seek very professional help.

Just sayin'

Ok, that's kind of creepy, FaceBook

So, anyway, for some reason today, pictures on FaceBook are not rendering. In the overall scheme of things, this is neither here, nor there, and I'm sure it will soon be corrected.

But...

In place of pictures, I see things like this "image may contain three people, including xxxxxxxxx"

It seems highly unlikely that a human sat there, and added all these "may contain" messages, so therefore, some AI did.

That probably means that all pictures uploaded to FaceBook have had similar AI estimations applied to them.

One one hand, it's innocent, but on the other hand (the suspicious, cynical hand), one wonders how this might play out long term, especially in places like China.

Sigh. Privacy Revolution again, folks.