Rootkit that attacks treacherous computing

Cory Doctorow explains how the rootkit that attacks treacherous computing is a disaster for "security" in the usual sense.

It means that machines with the WHAT? can now have additional back doors other than the one that Microsoft designed into Windows.

However, since WHAT is what ensures we can't free our machines from Microsoft's control, the same vulnerability that this rootkit uses might give us a way to turn off treacherous computing and/or install our own free boot software.