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

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

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