"for testing" installer bundle, get the stamp from the protection racket, and then set the key to 1 in the real installer you ship.
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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