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Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months (github.com)

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I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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[-] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago

I too wish the developer would respond, but I don't think this is the catastrophe people are making it out to be. One comment seems to explain why these binaries are included:

Because ventoy supports shim, and by extension secure boot, these files needs to come from a signed Linux distro. In this case they are taken from Fedora releases, and OpenSUSE apparently, as they publish shim binaries and grub binaries signed by their certificate.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

that's only a few files out of the 153

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

153 binaries? where?

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