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

[Tobias Diedrich <ranma@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.

It's not only new machines, the X41 I'm typing on and my old R52
both have this theft protection BIOS thingy.
Both are approx. 4 year old IBM/Lenovo models.
http://developernet.absolute.com/partners/lenovo.asp
(And since the X41 is used and the previous owner had activated the 
protection I can't even disable it.

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