[GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

[mwilson at Vex.Net]

Znoteer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 07:42:47PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
>> If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to
>> root),
>> there's probably a key embedded in there you can pull out with strings
>>
>
> I don't seem to have that file, and I'm not surprised.  Under what
> circumstances might one have that file on a linux system?

Is it perhaps a license for installed firmware?  I have that file on an
HP/Compaq laptop, in a fresh Debian install to a brand-new SSD.  We had to
install some non-free firmware to get the laptop to boot.  It was all done
in a spirit of hasty improvisation, so I don't remember which firmware it
was.
Way back when, the laptop was delivered with Windows 10, which I blew away
on the original HD.  The license number for that is on a sticker on the
bottom, and it's a different license number from the one in the MSDM file.

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