It's so telling that ASUS is pretending nothing went wrong, never informed customers of the hack and continued using the compromised signing keys:
motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/
It's a clear demonstration that they're completely untrustworthy. It fits the experiences I had with them.
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I once accidentally triggered a bug in an ASUS motherboard via UEFI nonsense which bricked it. I wasn't looking for bugs or anything like that. They denied it was broken and sent me back my RMA'ed board with fresh BIOS chips, claiming they did nothing. The bug was never fixed.
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I was so frustrated when they said they were sending it back claiming that nothing was wrong with it, and I thought I'd need to buy a new motherboard. It turned out they'd replaced the BIOS and wiped the state, but without acknowledging they actually did anything to repair it.
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I mean an ASUS motherboard in a desktop that I built rather than an ASUS laptop. I prefer EVGA motherboards and graphics cards because they have really good support. I don't think they're great at making their hardware / firmware secure and robust, but it's way better than ASUS.
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Chromebooks and Macbooks are among the only options with decent firmware security and updates. Chromebooks support verified boot and A/B updates along with the OS having a meaningful security model unlike most alternatives. It supports isolated Linux VMs: chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/doc.
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