Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

[Antonio Olivares]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
> UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries
> http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/
>
> This would seem to make compiling from source difficult.
>

Red Hat is the one that is apparently paying for it.

I believe that should be unnecessary.  It would only be a matter of
time before someone breaks the M$ layer of poop that is supposed to
prevent folks from booting other OSes other than Window$.  They hit
the panic button too soon IMHO.

There is a thread on Fedora list about this and many people are unsure
that Red Hat paying for secure boot was the right thing to do.  See
the archives for references.

Regards,

Antonio