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Some MSI Motherboards Do Not Have Secure Boot Enabled by Default

Security researcher Dawid Potocki discovered that more than 300 motherboard models from MSI do not implement the Secure Boot feature by default, which means that they will allow any bootloader, signed or unsigned, to run. According to an MSI Reddit post, the company says they “preemptively set Secure Boot as Enabled and ‘Always Execute’ as the default setting to offer a user-friendly environment that allows multiple end-users flexibility to build their PC systems.” MSI reportedly plans to release firmware updates that will change the default setting to “Deny Execute.” Ref https://dawidpotocki.com/en/2023/01/13/msi-insecure-boot/