Driver signing is just a protection racket. It makes no actual guarantees about the code.
Because of market forces. On Windows, it's a malicious party (hw vendors) who want to break driver rules for "value added" crap & ..
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..well, pretty much, to win at benchmarks.
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It's not about users being able to use the hardware they bought in the way they want to.
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I've mostly just seen incompetence rather than malice (other than GPU drivers, which are shitty on every OS). Who else does this?
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HP is most famous for "value-added crap" w/ printers & scanners. Benchmark malice is mostly vid cards.
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Sound card vendors also did deceitful stuff in drivers (faking capabilities hw was advertised to have in sw) but signing doesn't stop this.
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But AFAIK these *) aren't in kernel mode and aren't restricted anyways and/or *) aren't actually stopped by signing. So why enforce signing?
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Then there's the "secret" goal we haven't brought up yet, which is that driver signing helps enforce DRM. Sounds user-hostile to me.
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