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



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.

Not if you use coreboot[1] ;)

Edward

1. http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards


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