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TI 2012 - is booting from CD/USB-Stick on new Samsung-Laptop nonhazardous?

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In February 2013 was reported that a bug in some Linux kernels causes physical damage in UEFI-booting on new Samsung Laptops.
Does anybody know, if I have this risk by starting such a device from Acronis True Image 2012 CD (or other media)?
thx to all reading this and thinking about
Bert

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Bert Bormann wrote:

In February 2013 was reported that a bug in some Linux kernels causes physical damage in UEFI-booting on new Samsung Laptops.

"physical damage" as in hardware damage? I've not heard of this, please explain.

I have to make a little correction to my first posting: it seems not to be physical damage but destruction of the Motherboard's Firmware (when I heard first time of that half a year ago to my simple mind it was synonym for total physical damage).
For some further informations please read the articles by using the following links:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-bri…

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/01/31/linux-samsung-deaths/

So my question ist persisting: can the Linux kernel which is implemented in the TI 2012 booting media destroy some devices in the described way?