Re: [tlug] New Laptops with BIOS Rootkit Pre-Installed

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2009-08-05 19:38 +0900 (Wed), CL wrote:

> No need to worry about rootkits and unsigned BIOS upgrades. 
> Manufacturers are installing them in new machines.  The issue seems to 
> lie in the BIOS itself ... a layer below the OS, thus makes LIN 
> installations just as vulnerable as WIN.

It gets worse; one of the big worries these days is compromised CPUs,
with the backdoors built into the CPU itself....

cjs
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