How to Jail Break UEFI to RUN Ubuntu?

Question

The ISSUE is how the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot (protocol) v2.3.1 that Microsoft has mandated for all Windows 8 64bit systems illegally blocks boot loading software (such as FREE and legal Ubuntu) from being loaded unless a Microsoft or one of it’s affiliates (collaborators) has digitally sign (cryptographic signature) your code with their UEFI signing key (KEK certificate which is a DER encoded binary X509 v3 certificate) stored in the firmware.

Why should Ubuntu developers or any other free software developer be held hostage and forced to PAY Microsoft any FEE for the right and privilege of running our own software?

No to mention there is no centralized signing authority to provide UEFI keys. Microsoft has made itself the only authority (gatekeeper) holding all the master keys.

I want to point out there is NO such thing as “Windows Hardware” because Microsoft does NOT manufacture Lenovo, Sony, Toshiba, Acer, Asus, MSI, VIA, HP, Dell, Celvo, Sager, etc… This is Microsoft extending its own brand (software) upon firmware, claiming it’s their platform. Why do the manufactures accept this theft of their hardware product?

Answer 1

I didn't quite understand your question, it is like an opinion. Your title suggests you want to get pass the secure boot function to install ubuntu. (but your question content asks, why ms doing all the stuff)

Moreover, UEFI is not depended upon secure boot. Secure boot is a feature of UEFI. UEFI can be there without secure boot enabled.

Well as an answer based on your title , all I can say, from ubuntu 12.10 the secure boot is supported. But as the secure boot implementation varied from manufacturer to manufacturer, it may not be reliable. One more important thing, you need 64bit Ubuntu to work with UEFI.

So, if you are facing problem just turn off the secure boot in firmware settings page (which in general called as BIOS). That's all.

And here goes the guide to install ubuntu in a win 8 laptop : Installing Ubuntu Alongside a Pre-Installed Windows with UEFI

Answer 2

Microsoft has certainly excluded out Linux, an open platform, on the Windows Surface RT tablets!

If you one of the many who happen to purchase a Microsoft Surface RT Tablet, you should know Android, Linux, Ubuntu, not even Windows 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP or any flavor of Windows will run except RT only! There is NO disable UEFI mode given. Your locked into using only 1 operating system for life on that device, given the OS is locked down not to the owner, but the device itself.

If you want to run Ubuntu on a Microsoft Surface Tablet, the word “jailbreak” certainly does apply.

Answer 3

Dr. Richard Stallman, one of the most influential and important people in the Linux community, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, has basically said UEFI Secure Boot protocol should be illegal for how it is implemented in favor of only supporting the proprietary Windows monopoly.

He points out that the security feature causes the machine to only work with programs that are signed with a digital key that Microsoft has made itself the central authority. For everyone else, not just Linux enthusiast, this anti-social behavior encroaches upon the sovereignty of open platforms for everyone on the planet.

Excuse me, but this truly is an ACT of war! Microsoft is the invading advisory here, by claiming it has supreme authority over everyone else to dictate their terms as usual. No negotiation was ever given. It’s the same with the EULA, an ultimatum that demands 100% submission and surrender to their terms. No refunds are honored too!

Today, Microsoft has placed a barrier against liberty and everyone, it's a restrictive anti-competition business tactic, that hinders and works against every open platform and society (human race). As everyone knows we all build upon code, just as nobody sits down and innovates a 747-400 Jumbo Jet alone, all by themselves. There are over 6 million parts to a 747-400. Now imagine 50 million lines of code that an modern operating consist of. This effort is only possible through the collaboration and cooperation of a great many people, in the past and present. For humanity to advance in the future, this same strategy of building upon prior work, is required. No exceptions, no exclusions, our species doesn’t pass on genetic knowledge, we obtain it from a born blank slate.

Tomorrow holds the extermination of all open platforms, if we don’t stand up against the aggression of Microsoft’s extremist tyranny! It’s time to liberate humanity, assuming you’re a human being who values living in a world of choice, as that is what the open platform insures for all of us!

Answer 4

The answer to "How to Jail Break UEFI to RUN Ubuntu?" is that you shouldn't need to do that, if the UEFI secure boot protocol wasn't criminalized into a private business tool for profiteering. This is a much deeper social issue on display than what appears at the surface; a reflection of an economy without a conscience.